Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

This is starting to come up a lot more as people switch from pytz to zoneinfo, so a reminder about datetime arithmetic semantics; addition is NOT referring to elapsed time:
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2018/02/aware-datetime-arithmetic.html

(Relevant SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/64440016/467366 )

#python

@eric I think they must be more common up in CT. Never seen a pair like this before, but I've gotten photos of them twice before (and this is my first month with a camera that can take decent bird photos).

This was all within ~10 minutes of one another.

Three different kinds of woodpecker in my back yard today. Yellow-bellied sapsucker (male, then female), hairy woodpecker (male), then downy woodpecker (female).

You can tell the hairy and downy woodpecker apart because the hairy woodpecker has a longer beak, and the downy woopecker has black bands on her white inner tail feathers.

#birding #birds

Going to be a confusing few weeks for anyone in Palestine. Evergreen link:

https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/

The first-party `tzdata` module on PyPI has been updated to 2020.3 to reflect the upstream 2020c release!

https://pypi.org/project/tzdata/

This includes the short-notice changes to Fiji's DST. 2020.4 should be out soon, though, since Palestine just changed their DST on ~4 days' notice.

My son saw a blue jay at the feeder this morning and called over to my wife: "Mama, bird! You need the nocalurs! Take a picture!"

So it begins...

#birding

Since September 24th, I have taken over 750 photos of birds.

I... may have a problem.

#birding

Wow, that's a... significant bulk discount on extension cords.

Some Eastern Bluebirds at the feeder the other day. Male first, then female.

#birding #birds #photography

Male and female northern cardinal.

Possibly a breeding pair? They showed up together, and I didn't see any other cardinals around.

#birding #birds #photography

TFW a tufted titmouse tries to photobomb you.

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Looking at some old pictures of baby starlings waiting to get fed and something jumped out at me...

@Sphinx Hah, no, a while back I bought a Sony Cybershot DSC HX90V superzoom camera basically for the purpose of taking pictures of birds.

Here's a little thread I did on twitter reviewing it: https://twitter.com/pganssle/status/1315069365587529728?s=20

(I think I forgot to cross-post this to Mastodon).

Looks like another kind of bird has discovered my feeder...

Red-shouldered hawk next to a brave or foolish white-breasted nuthatch.

#birding #birds

@brainwane Ah, this seems really useful.

Too bad I just bought 300 pounds of rennet...

@lynne@pars.ee I think the common naïve assumption would be that if you want to cut 30s, and you have keyframes at 25 and 35, you should be able to cut and re-encode 25-30, then prepend that onto a video from 35 on.

Not sure if it's possible to concatenate videos like that without re-encoding the whole thing like it is with mp3s, though.

@lynne@pars.ee I may be able to manually do this with trial and error, but I'm surprised there is no ready-made way to do this that I can find.

@lynne@pars.ee I think it's the other way around that is a problem. I want -ss 00:00:NN, which has problems unless you cut exactly on a keyframe.