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Wind Turbines, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.

A histogram of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

@Asbestos @tomjennings @mattblaze @moz I took lots of pictures (and a few videos) of ravens this year, including some of a juvenile with a parent standing by—no trouble! As I always say, better a corvid than covid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@SteveBellovin @Asbestos @tomjennings @mattblaze I have a resident magpie that does not like have its photo taken. It will tolerate me walking round my back lawn but if I get the camera out it disappears.

Which is better than their usual habit of declaring an area theirs and attacking anyone who goes into it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@moz @Asbestos @tomjennings @mattblaze Fascinating. I've seen birds that fly off or move to the other side of a tree trunk just when I'm about to focus. Maybe it's not coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@SteveBellovin @moz @Asbestos @tomjennings At the SEPTA 30th Street station in Philly, there are these black balloon-like objects hanging from the rafters of the trainshed. They have a pattern that makes them look vaguely like an abstract giant eye. Apparently that's enough to make some birds think there's a big predator watching and move on to friendlier real estate. I wonder if the camera has a similar effect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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They might even know it's fake but just to creepy to tolerate!

One of our dogs doesn't like the phone camera. I doubt he knows what it does, more that it's a mystery thing and doesn't smell right and doesn't trust it.

He'll watch videos on the phone though if it's clear animal stuff. But that's common enough.