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Google Street View birding (1 Viewer)


Following road alongside google car for several frames; excellent match for American Kestrel #191 :t:
Going back 8 frames, it's actually sat on the wire - so the google car flushed it from way back. My recollection of American Kestrels is they ignore normal cars, so that camera pillar on top of the google car must be a frightener for them, and may explain the shortage of 'wire perchers' so far :-C
 
I retract my earlier comment that they seem to deliberately pick seasons without birds, as I have now realised that you can change the date on the view if they have done the same spot in several years (but often in different months).

I checked out the crane wintering spot in Izumi Japan.

White-naped Cranes

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@32.1...PJjM34SzcQjtcXmijAyQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Hooded Cranes

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@32.1...pg!2e0!5s20171201T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@32.0...9nw244n8izbnAU1oY-5w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@32.1...rCCVeFKa9qH1vbfGUoJA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Hooded and White-naped are both in huge numbers during the season. We've seen Sandhill and Common, but they are always in very small numbers (Sandhill 8, and Common 2 the year we saw them last). And Siberian (usually juvenile) is very rare, and Demoiselle doesn't seem to have been reported in recent years. So the chances of catching these latter four on StreetView must be vanishingly small in this spot.

Mixed Hooded and White-naped

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@32.1...XogWGGu2HJxSQ1_Fm8qw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Rooks (I know we've already got them but this spot is famous for them). There are also Daurian Jackdaw in small numbers, but picking them out in the photos is going to be tricky even if they were there.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@32.1...3EueMLB9v4jdsaPw2qdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Anyway, armed with my new-found super-power of time travel, I am enthused to give various other places a try.
 

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