Can you understand bird? Test your recognition of calls and songs

I've tried setting it up with the birdnetlib package but had trouble getting it running with a model and pack that was for my region. The default model for birdnetlib is in Europe.

Another good one is SongSleuth[1] - recently recommended to me by Nathan Pieplow because it has a "pre-record" buffer so you can hit record as or immediately after you hear a bird and it captures a few seconds before that instead of having to run Merlin continuously waiting for the bird to call next.

[1] http://www.songsleuth.com/

[2] https://earbirding.com/blog/author

Out my window while I work I watch blackbirds harass crows over a field where the blackbirds nest. They don't show up until later in the morning, and I can tell I've slept in way too late if I hear crows. I can tell the sun isn't up yet if I can still hear bullfrogs, and at night I know to grab a blanket when the crickets chirps slow down, or to close the windows when the cricket chirps are dense, because it's probably cooler inside than out and I can preserve the cool in the house if it's a hot night. The robins seem to come out looking for worms before a storm, because the worms likely sense the pressure change and surface before hand.

I had a squirrel problem over the winter, and I progressively started spreading a few peanuts out over the snow in the field further and further from the house and where they had less access to retreat to cover, as the hawks would show up later in the day where their shadows would be cast further out from their prey on the ground. I got the squirrels venturning pretty far out into the field for a while. I never saw the hawks get one, but one day I stopped hearing the squirrel and seeing it around. Not sure it worked, but it seemed like the most fair solution.

I'm consiering a bat house to keep the mosquitos down as well. If you have the peace and quiet and time to listen, you can really integrate with nature pretty well.