(i have a few https://www.birdweather.com/ devices strewn across North America and Europe because I am time poor and preferred a turnkey solution for those gifted to, but love the DIY efforts! no affiliation!)

> No cloud services. No API calls.

> No subscription fees. No terms of service changes. No company shutting down the service in two years.

I like the idea of doing something with the timestamp of the recording, or highlighting new (or recently unheard) visitors.

https://alec.is/posts/building-a-solar-powered-bird-station/

I have a spare e-ink display and my next weekend project to follow onto this is to wire it up so it shows some faux "woodcut" images of birds detected, or something like that.

would have been a great Mr. Robot episode

I made a change to the markdown card sometime ago that uses only `U+2581` through `U+ 2587` instead to avoid that issue.

It's under a collapsed block here:

https://www.kyleniewiada.org/blog/2025/05/backyard-bird-trac...