Bird Buddy: Tap Into Nature

Okay, so I love having a feeder with a camera. That part is great. Whats not great is the AI - every single postcard I get is mislabeled. They also charge you more to see the “faster” birds, and if I’d known that I would have gone with a different company. Nothing more annoying than your app telling you a cool bird visits around 6 am, but you’ve never seen a postcard of it so you have to guess if it’s actually correctly ID’d a frequent visitor but won’t show it to you because you have the basic plan or if the AI camera was so consistently wrong it’s interpreting the same song sparrow as a downy woodpecker again. I spend more time changing the ID on visitors than I do enjoying the postcards of them. At this point just drop the AI aspect, charge one flat fee instead of a premium tier for faster birds and let us ID them because we’re changing all your terrible IDs anyways. If a sparrow turns around it does not become a starling. The livestream option is fun.

Hey what gives? With the current update down loading my buddies photos is no longer simple. There used to be a button on the photo where the photo could be sent to my photos on my phone or iPad. I can work around this by using a screen capture. But that’s awkward. Please reinstate the down load button, unless there is a good reason why it was removed.

I’m so happy with my bird buddy. I could sit all day watching the videos that it captures for me. Literally the best purchase ever!

We got one for Xmas and for weeks refused to charge. Multiple devices, computers & cables… reset router, nada. Then it just worked! Worked great for 3 weeks, went to sleep one Thursday night with over 80% charge… then would not wake up. Same charging dance … nada. Put it back outside in the feeder connected to solar roof - it works!! Damned if it will only charge from the solar roof. Serious thoughts of returning it… but it’s just so dang… addictive! The app, well, yes, a bit clunky but hoping this version released today has some refinements. I’d like to be able to only see MY gallery. Sure other feeder birds are cool, but I’m most interested in who’s at MY feeder. Overall, looking forward to seeing the new and fabulous birds as migration season continues!

All you can do is pause notifications for a fixed length of time, the max being one week. Not even food delivery apps are this annoying. Why on earth can I not customize what types of notifications I want, and permanently turn off certain types? Guess I’ll just tell iOS not to allow any notifications from the app.

If the app knows how many times a species has visited (knows a group of photos is the same visit) why do I have to reclassify each photo from the same visit? And why does the auto identification not take a more conservation approach instead of just being flat out wrong. Scientific names should be incorporated, and the app should identify to family/genus if unsure. And why can’t I re-classify a bird if it’s a cover photo?!? The app picks a cover photo, just pick a new one if I re-classify.

This was so hard to do. Download this, and do that but nothing worked. I did finally find out others had issues with their privacy settings on their WiFi. Two weeks of almost throwing it in the garbage but wanting to figure it out. I did try contacting support but I 🫣, my son figured it out before my three day wait. Now, with knowing all this and if it was clearer within any of the trouble shooting suggestions, this product is worth the wait. Cute birds and troublesome ones too. Tweet tweet

Bird Buddy is good fun. The app used in order to view things, is a little tricky to get running properly but once it’s working the way it should, it’s wonderful to see everything up close.

This must have been designed by a committee (of birds?). Get notifications of activity, but app provides no guidance on how to selectively save, or where images are saved. Cutesy little images and saying, etc - but no clear menu or process. Makes a fun thing just annoying.

We had 3 bird buddy's gifted this Christmas. Two of them are still having difficulty getting them working. Mine eventually linked and I am loving the birds I see. I tried to help the other two get hooked up but was not able to. Instructions snd troubleshooting need to be better described