Show HN: Places to watch ducks if you're sick of everything
sickofthis.xyzAwesome. Submitted my local canal, just been past a whole cabal* of ducks on my evening run.
* Wrong collective term but 1) it's a good word and 2) there's something schemey about large collections of ducks. Foul* business is being carried out.
*Sorry.
Ahah, thank you! Cabal is a great word.
It's a nice geolocation list of worldwide duck parks...thought it was actual live stream duck watching...that would be cool too
That really brightens my day.
You can feed ducks with Twitch bits. This is peak internet.
THIS IS absolutely AMAZING. Made my entire week. Thank you!
Thank you! We are working on that!
would be cool to team up with those duck localities and setup webcams somewhere there.
Can we get a Geese variant for when you're feeling angry instead of tired?
Where I previously lived, the geese ran the park. One did not simply visit their park. They often blocked the main road through town.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-15/riddells-creek-geese-...
Geese are pure evil. I would settle for swans though.
Aren't swans just geese in nicer clothes?
May depend on the species. Mute swans are usually okay except for the occasional one that's an a-hole and is usually well known locally. I've heard that do some of the other species attack if approached.
A Dutch bird protection organization has web cams of bird nests in the Netherlands: https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/beleefdelente
Also here: https://visdeurbel.nl/ is an awesome service. Migratory fish get stuck at sluices in the city of Utrecht, that aren't opened much this time of year. So they installed an underwater web cam -- please watch it and when you see a lot of fish, please press the door bell so the sluice guard knows to open it.
Unfortunately it's just getting dark here right now.
Bookmarked this one https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/beleefdelente/filmpjes/bekij...
And now I'm craving tater tots. I haven't tried to read much dutch yet, apparently. I'm guessing "tot" is an extremely common word, though.
Tot means to, or until. Van hagel tot hemelblauw = from hail to sky blue.
Beautiful.
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Speaking of being sick of everything.
I think at this point everyone gets it and we can stop with the beers and coffees and just say "GIVE US MONEY"
Pretty cool. I like ducks.
One bug: the pin for "The Pond at Central Park" incorrectly shows up near 64th & 1st. Looks like there are some others that aren't accurate too.
I once had a channel on twitch for streaming my hummingbird feeder when it was a hot spot. That’s no longer up but I was part of a “team” of other animal channels (which had many ducks!)-
The last time I watched ducks at the duck pond I saw 3 attempted duck-on-duck drownings
You should watch them mating, the on-water shenanigans are nothing.
Would be cool if submitting locations were a bit easier.
eBird is a good place to look for ducks too.
Nice that it uses OpenStreetMaps. Still three requests to Google URLs and other trackers. :(
Delightful. I really like the trend of single-purpose, “artsy” websites, it feels like there’s been more of them recently.
...someone should make a site, which lists them all.
Damn, that idea takes me back to the early 90s. Everyone putting together curated lists of their fave things on the web.
Simpler times for sure.
Duck Pond Simulator:
I clicked the link thinking of this SBemail and hoping somebody made a playable version of the game. It's a shame the easter egg on the end isn't playable post-Flash.
It's not ducks, but the annual Crane migration you can see in several (ideal) areas across central Nebraska is a game changer.
Stunning birds, some of the guys in the photography forums I'm on go down and spend days shooting the sandhill crane migrations, and the photos they come away with are breathtaking. Would love to make it down there one of these years.
For those that aren’t familiar, there is also ebird.org
This app is a much more straightforward than navigating ebird’s hotspot UX though.
The south side of SF bay is pretty awesome for watching ducks. But it's really the waterfront network of trails that are the ticket. That duckpond at Bayshores definitely attracts a diverse set, but you can find them all on a nice walk, with fewer zillionaires buzzing overhead on approach to the Bayshores airport.
I've been seeing ring-necked mallards in my driveway. They're bold urban birds; they don't take flight when a car approaches. I have to honk at them to get them to move.
Usually, crows are the only large birds nearby. The mallards are new.
Status UPD:
I'm sorry for this experience, but we just can't add all locations right now :(
We were adding the locations to the map manually. After the app went viral, we got over 600 new places over 24 hours, so we can't handle it this way anymore. We are working on automating this process, and as soon as we'll figure it out, we are going to add all the locations, including yours, to the map.
Thank you for your contribution! It means a lot to us. Please, don't worry, we will add your submissions as soon as we can.
Also: https://iconduck.com/search?query=duck
They've got a gr8 collection of ducks
Awesome. Just submitted Sunnyvale Community Center location, which has a pond with a lot of ducks.
The one with fountains, uncanny blue water and fake swans?
Such a weird pond.
I would love to see how this was implemented. Is this on GitHub or equivalent somewhere?
Sorry, it's not open sourced (at least yet), but I was using React and Mapbox to implement it.
You can see an example in pure javascript here:
https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/cluster/
And how to build a similar app here:
Nice! Submitted two entries for NZ (Auckland Domain & CHCH Avon river). Thanks!
I submitted Dunedin Botanical Gardens too :)
I really find this amusing. It's hard to explain why, but the author's sense of humor certainly overlaps with mine! What an awesome and extremely useful site.
Thank you so much!
I wanted to add a location but I can't get the location on the website itself? Why not just coordinates anyway?
Too much effort.
Any amount of effort to share a duck pond location is the correct amount of effort.
Do I post the last known sighting of Bigflipper, or will that just make him harder to find...
if you're at sea, here is a convenient map of the great rubber duck spill: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
really upset my duck submission wasn't added
I'm sorry for this, we just can't add all locations right now :(
We were adding the locations to the map manually. After the app went viral, we got over 600 new places over 24 hours, so we can't handle it this way anymore. We are working on automating this process, and as soon as we will figure it out, we are going to add all the locations, including yours, to the map.
Thank you for your contribution! It means a lot to us. Please, don't worry, we will add your submission as soon as we can.