Our Birdnet-Pi is working well, sitting on the porch, with a cheapie USB microphone under the eaves. But it fails to detect the gentle, high pitched cheep-cheep of the goldfinches, probably because of the background noise of the burn not far away. I don't think there's much to be done about it, and it's not worth trying an expensive microphone.
But if anyone has any ideas about increasing this sensitivity, and decreasing the background noise, that would be good.
Stevan
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