Birding with Google Earth! (1 Viewer)

Wayland

Well-known member

• Sep 10, 2008

• #1

This comes under the category "nothing better too do".

If the weather is too bad, or your just too tired or lazy you can still go birding in the comfort of your own home, courtesy of Google Earth!
You also had the added advantage of being able to choose anywhere on Earth, it's free and it's got a very low Carbon Footprint.
If you check out the photo you will see what I mean. The white blobs in the water are Mute Swans and the smaller grey blobs are Mallards. How do I know? It is my local patch - Coate Water in Swindon, England. This puts my Google Earth list at 2. Can you beat it?
Top marks to anyone who can find a Bird(s) in flight!

 

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gareth_blockley

Smile people

• Sep 10, 2008

• #2

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=117376&highlight=earth


Gareth

 

Wayland

Well-known member

• Sep 10, 2008

• #3

Amazing find that one!

 

KnockerNorton

Well-known member

• Sep 10, 2008

• #4

Wayland said:

This comes under the category "nothing better too do".

If the weather is too bad, or your just too tired or lazy you can still go birding in the comfort of your own home, courtesy of Google Earth!
You also had the added advantage of being able to choose anywhere on Earth, it's free and it's got a very low Carbon Footprint.
If you check out the photo you will see what I mean. The white blobs in the water are Mute Swans and the smaller grey blobs are Mallards. How do I know? It is my local patch - Coate Water in Swindon, England. This puts my Google Earth list at 2. Can you beat it?
Top marks to anyone who can find a Bird(s) in flight!

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how you can rule out a female Gadwall, or a white greylag, I'll never know

 

Wayland

Well-known member

• Sep 10, 2008

• #5

KnockerNorton said:

how you can rule out a female Gadwall, or a white greylag, I'll never know

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It's a jizz thing!:t:

 

MikeMules

Well-known member

• Sep 11, 2008

• #6

Or, you can bird using the streetview function of Google Maps; my list stands at 3: Silver Gull, Australian Pelican, Black Swan.

 

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chris3871

Explorer Extraordinaire

• Sep 11, 2008

• #7

Gannets I think.

 

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Mannix

Well-known member

• Sep 11, 2008

• #8

Doe a flying car count?

Maybe it's a Suzuki Swift?

 

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totaljohn

man-e-faces

• Sep 14, 2008

• #9

Mannix said:

Doe a flying car count?

Maybe it's a Suzuki Swift?

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haha, fantastic (or possibly not if that was the beginning of a horrendous accident) where is it?

as for google earth, i use it pretty much exclusively for placemarking reserves and other good birding sites.

 

Eimajm

Well-known member

• Sep 15, 2008

• #10

Or if you don't have internet access, TV birding. Not allowed to be a nature program thats cheating. Calls count too, so when you subject to that awful soap your misses loves, keep an eye and ear out

 

matt green

Norfolkman gone walkabout

• Sep 15, 2008

• #11

I used to play around with the google earth but for some reason it kept crashing or freezing up on me..

Been using windows live maps since..though image quality differs from area to area

http://maps.live.com/

Matt

 

Chewbaxter

Reformed "Bird Ignorer"!

• Sep 15, 2008

• #12

Eimajm said:

Or if you don't have internet access, TV birding. Not allowed to be a nature program thats cheating.

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B*gger - I've been watching "How To Watch Wildlife" (Bill Oddie) and have added LOADS... I didn't realise it was cheating, so I'll have to start all over again!


Neil.

P.S. Does the Attenborough series "The Life Of Birds" not count either?

 

jurek

Well-known member

• Sep 16, 2008

• #13

Mannix said:

Doe a flying car count?

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Bah, there was once 300m-long earwig on some photo! Anybody still has a link?

 

totaljohn

man-e-faces

• Sep 16, 2008

• #14

jurek said:

Bah, there was once 300m-long earwig on some photo! Anybody still has a link?

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/giant_insect/

 

Chewbaxter

Reformed "Bird Ignorer"!

• Sep 16, 2008

• #15

totaljohn said:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/giant_insect/

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Jesus! Move over Nessie!

That's a belter!

:t:


Neil.