{"id":1000571,"date":"2007-04-23T06:05:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T11:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/04\/23\/but-does-it-count-for-your-life-list\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:53:45","slug":"but-does-it-count-for-your-life-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/04\/23\/but-does-it-count-for-your-life-list\/","title":{"rendered":"But does it count for your life list?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems you can now go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/news\/2007\/04\/cone_sf\">bird watching via the Internet<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t been able to test it out yet (20 user limit apparently) but this is certainly cool. Personally, I can&#8217;t imagine it replacing actually being out in the field by any small amount. On the other hand, I&#8217;ve always found it quite sad to meet senior birders who are no longer able to hold binoculars steady or get to the park. I can imagine this might be of some interest to them. At least one elderly birder did a big year on TV, after he could no longer get out so much. This certainly tops that.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I might set up a birdcam myself, except my window list is limited to House Sparrow, European Starling, Rock Pigeon, and very occasionally Mourning Dove.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/backyard.JPG\" alt=\"My backyard\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe if I pointed the camera straight up at the sky you could catch an occasional flyover gull, crow, or raptor.<\/p>\n<p>Update: In the last couple of days I&#8217;ve added two birds to the backyard list: Canada Goose and Black-capped Chickadee. Both were heard only, not seen. That brings my total to six. At least once I&#8217;ve seen a red-tailed Hawk flying over the building. that makes seven. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems you can now go bird watching via the Internet. I haven&#8217;t been able to test it out yet (20 user limit apparently) but this is certainly cool. Personally, I can&#8217;t imagine it replacing actually being out in the field by any small amount. On the other hand, I&#8217;ve always found it quite sad to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}