Yeah, that's overkill but it is funny. Archive: https://archive.today/x0V0Q From the post: >>Over the past few months, my attempt to answer the question ‘is that robin on my bird feeder huge or just fluffy’ sparked a descent into over-engineered bird feeder madness. I did the natural thing and started building a Raspberry Pi powered custom bird feeder with a digital scale, webcam, and automatic species detection with image classification models. I succeeded in answering the question, and presented my results at the 100th PyData London Meetup: the robin was 26g, that’s a massive robin (150% more than the average according to the RSPB)!