Canada Geese and Other Feathery Friends

Steggie's blog about the feathery friends she made 2009-2018. Mostly Canada geese. Sometimes ducks and backyard birds. Occasionally zoo animals. Everything is original work unless otherwise noted.

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Saying goodbye to Mr. Fries. Hopefully it's not the last!! 🤞🤞🤞

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Checking on Mr. Fries in the evening.

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I found Mr. Fries at the first stop of my goose trip this year, but his wing is broken. 😭 I don't think he can survive this winter. Very sad.

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Canada Geese 06-20-2018

Mr. and Mrs. Fries (the two in the center) wish everybody Happy Holidays!

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I made a thing! I extracted 1000 goose mugshots from my photo library as the training data and used GANs to generate new, artificial goose faces. The 4 pictures show how the generated faces improve in quality as the GAN evolves with time. They kinda look like some modern art. 

I’m gonna call this the GANder project. I plan to try some different neural network architectures to see if I can further improve the quality.

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Canada Goose Family 06-21-2018

The Eyebrow-Betas and their 13 goslings in 2018, swimming in a row. Note that two of the goslings appear younger than others (still having all-yellow heads and necks). They are likely to be adopted.

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Goslings 05-13-2015

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Canada Goose Family 06-28-2017

The Fries and 2 of their goslings in 2017.

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Canada Goose 08-17-2015

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Canada Goose Family 06-28-2016

The Mochis should have chosen a better place to nap.

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Canada Goose Family 06-20-2018

The Donut family under a tree.

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Little Baby Butts 05-13-2015

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Canada Goose Family 06-16-2018

The Eyebrow-Beta family.

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Canada Goose Family 06-16-2018

The Eyebrow-Betas swimming into the sunset.

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Canada Goose Family 06-17-2018

A family of Canada geese all looking in my direction.

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Gosling with Pine Tree 07-24-2014

Little Fries #1 is trying to find out if the pine tree is tasty.

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Whew. I spent tonight playing with the Python Tumblr API and Flickr API. Now I can bypass the dreadful Flickr share-to-Tumblr thing and upload a photo from my computer to both platforms at the same time, with tags and captions and formatting and all that. The last two posts was posted this way!