I mentioned a few posts ago the crap start to the October vismigging season ... with loads of soggy, cold, miserable weather.To be fair there's been a bit of a Yellow-browed influx, but the "standing out there watching the sky and listening" sort of VM-ing hasn't been a comfortable option really. So, taking a lead from that " overnight recording" that people are doing,and which I wrote about a post or two ago, I thought I could try to " remote-ify" my vismigging .... I could go out to the local VM spot at , say, 0630, and leave a camera pointing at the sky so it would film ( and get the audio of) all the birds that went over. Then I could go and pick it up at, say, 10 am and go through it all at home. Just a mo ! What am I saying ?? There's no need for all that ! I could get it to beam it all to my home computer and cut out all that driving around. What was I thinking ? OK ...so I look through the filming results and ID all the flyovers on jizz, previous experience and call recognition. What ! Hold on !! Don't be daft. There must be software that could do all that for me ... ID-ing the calls, using adapted "facial recognition software" to ID all the birds .... simps ! Right ...so all that information comes to me direct, so I copy it all into my diary. Wait a sec ! What am I thinking of ? I must be mad !!! Copying ? No way !! There's no need for all that " writing it up" rubbish. I'm sure I could sort out a way to get the computer to print it all out for me, with times and suchlike. It could all be delivered into the out-tray for me to peruse, file away, draw bar charts, pie charts etc .. Woa ! Hold your horses !! What am I saying ?? The blasted computer could do all that !! Drawing your own bar charts is a mug's game these days. Wake up ! Or rather .. .don't wake up ... there's no need to .... From now on I can just stay in bed listening to the rain/wind/Hurricane Eustace/Storm Dennis-the-Menace and leave the whole shebang to the electronic gubbins. What a relief . I'm sure I could go even further and computerise all my birding activities and just stay in bed reading The Beano. That's the March of Progress for you. " When the rain comes." Relevant or what ? If the rain comes
They run and hide their heads They might as well be dead If the rain comes If the rain comes When the sun shines They slip into the shade And sip their lemonade When the sun shines When the sun shines Rain, I don't mind Shine, the weather's fine I can show you That when it starts to rain Everything's the same I can show you I can show you Rain, I don't mind Shine, the weather's fine Can you hear me That when it rains and shines It's just a state of mind Can you hear me Can you hear me I wonder ... is that the sound of babies being thrown out with the bathwater ?
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