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Show HN: Places to watch ducks if you're sick of everything
- kaminar 6y agoIt's a nice geolocation list of worldwide duck parks...thought it was actual live stream duck watching...that would be cool too
- berniemadoff69 6y ago#1 on Product Hunt! Buy Us A Coffee! Speaking of being sick of everything.
- libraryatnight 6y agoI think at this point everyone gets it and we can stop with the beers and coffees and just say "GIVE US MONEY"
- strstr 6y agoFor those that aren’t familiar, there is also ebird.org This app is a much more straightforward than navigating ebird’s hotspot UX though.
- maciejgryka 6y agoDelightful. 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.
- sundaeofshock 6y agoDamn, 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.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 6y agoDo I post the last known sighting of Bigflipper, or will that just make him harder to find...
- LgWoodenBadger 6y agoThe last time I watched ducks at the duck pond I saw 3 attempted duck-on-duck drownings
- hazeii 6y agoYou should watch them mating, the on-water shenanigans are nothing.
- jamesgreenleaf 6y agoPretty 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.
- benatkin 6y agoI 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.
- siriniok 6y agoThank you so much!
- peanut_worm 6y agoWould be cool if submitting locations were a bit easier. eBird is a good place to look for ducks too. https://ebird.org/hotspots https://ebird.org/hotspots
- 1970-01-01 6y agoDuck Pond Simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMRmamm_LOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMRmamm_LOs
- drewzero1 6y agoI 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.
- smm11 6y agoIt's not ducks, but the annual Crane migration you can see in several (ideal) areas across central Nebraska is a game changer.
- rhines 6y agoStunning 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.
- dmje 6y agoAwesome. 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.
- siriniok 6y agoAhah, thank you! Cabal is a great word.
- temp0826 6y agoI 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!)- https://www.twitch.tv/team/animals https://www.twitch.tv/team/animals
- Scarblac 6y agoA Dutch bird protection organization has web cams of bird nests in the Netherlands: https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/beleefdelente https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/beleefdelente Also here: https://visdeurbel.nl/ 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.
- benatkin 6y agoBookmarked this one https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/beleefdelente/filmpjes/bekijken/van-hagel-tot-hemelblauw 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.
- srathi 6y agoAwesome. Just submitted Sunnyvale Community Center location, which has a pond with a lot of ducks.
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoThe one with fountains, uncanny blue water and fake swans? Such a weird pond.
- y2bd 6y agoCan we get a Geese variant for when you're feeling angry instead of tired?
- RileyJames 6y agoWhere 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-menace-or-harmless-fun/12349634 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-15/riddells-creek-geese-...
- mynegation 6y agoGeese are pure evil. I would settle for swans though.
- onassar 6y agoAlso: https://iconduck.com/search?query=duck https://iconduck.com/search?query=duck They've got a gr8 collection of ducks
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- rahimiali 6y agoif you're at sea, here is a convenient map of the great rubber duck spill: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
- BLanen 6y agoI wanted to add a location but I can't get the location on the website itself? Why not just coordinates anyway? Too much effort.
- sundaeofshock 6y agoAny amount of effort to share a duck pond location is the correct amount of effort.
- yosito 6y agoNice that it uses OpenStreetMaps. Still three requests to Google URLs and other trackers. :(
- killjoywashere 6y agoThe 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.
- laserson 6y agoI would love to see how this was implemented. Is this on GitHub or equivalent somewhere?
- siriniok 6y agoSorry, 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/ https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/cluster/ And how to build a similar app here: https://levels.io/hoodmaps/ https://levels.io/hoodmaps/
- kinow 6y agoNice! Submitted two entries for NZ (Auckland Domain & CHCH Avon river). Thanks!
- wyattb 5y agoI submitted Dunedin Botanical Gardens too :)
- Animats 6y agoI'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.
- kyriakos 6y agoreally upset my duck submission wasn't added
- siriniok 6y agoI'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.
- siriniok 6y agoStatus 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.