Google Street View birding (1 Viewer)

[3Italianbirders]

This should be a Corn Bunting:
https://goo.gl/maps/agcMrZ611Z4QqxZh7

https://goo.gl/maps/WpLo8gSyWNtTFAnG9


I have also been trying for Bee-eaters in several places I know, but it's always the wrong time of the year

 

[Nutcracker]

A Texas raptor?
https://goo.gl/maps/iYkMFaPeU8jywUuR7

Following road alongside google car for several frames; excellent match for American Kestrel #191 :t:

 

[Nutcracker]

Giant Roadrunner https://goo.gl/maps/KN86HRpESAbHDNzKA

33333

 

[Nutcracker]

This should be a Corn Bunting:
https://goo.gl/maps/agcMrZ611Z4QqxZh7

https://goo.gl/maps/WpLo8gSyWNtTFAnG9


I have also been trying for Bee-eaters in several places I know, but it's always the wrong time of the year

Collared Dove, surely? White tail tip; preening in 2nd pic so head not visible :t:

 

[Nutcracker]

I have also been trying for Bee-eaters in several places I know, but it's always the wrong time of the year

One of Bulgaria's largest Bee-eater colonies is only a short distance from here. As you say, time of year issues . . . . :-C :-O
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.759...=17.27271&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656

 

[Nutcracker]

A Texas raptor?
https://goo.gl/maps/iYkMFaPeU8jywUuR7

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

 

[Stonefaction]

Might be handy....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_of_Google_Street_View

 

[Nutcracker]

[Oriental] Dollarbird? Or just a myna? Bangladesh.
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.399...4!1sSvZLvwzZ2kjrMzaY3sqLtQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[Seth Miller]

[Oriental] Dollarbird? Or just a myna? Bangladesh.
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.399...4!1sSvZLvwzZ2kjrMzaY3sqLtQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Probably just a myna. Oriental dollarbird is way out of range in Rajshahi. Only place they're not considered rare in Bangladesh is the southeast hill tracts. They can be found in the north east, but considered rare there.

 

[Mono]

Prairie Chicken!
https://goo.gl/maps/7BtUwKKD3CmAHxgW9

 

[Nutcracker]

Probably just a myna. Oriental dollarbird is way out of range in Rajshahi. Only place they're not considered rare in Bangladesh is the southeast hill tracts. They can be found in the north east, but considered rare there.

Thanks! What I feared rather than what I hoped . . . :t:

Prairie Chicken!
https://goo.gl/maps/7BtUwKKD3CmAHxgW9

Bah humbug! 333

 

[Nutcracker]

A crazy idiot :eek!:
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.399...4!1sOskdU5wvkRkqGCG5-O0aGA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


This one must be dead by now, surely :-C
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.399...4!1sfLdTbsC7K7v5r9PucpPdeQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[Seth Miller]

A crazy idiot :eek!:
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.399...4!1sOskdU5wvkRkqGCG5-O0aGA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


This one must be dead by now, surely :-C
https://www.google.com/maps/@24.399...4!1sfLdTbsC7K7v5r9PucpPdeQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Oh, that's nothing! You should see them at eid time!! https://www.alamy.com/dhaka-banglad...-hasan-alialamy-live-news-image207985993.html

 

[Stonefaction]

Rabbit

https://goo.gl/maps/bDmYd6wbN4juVYeN6

 

[Nutcracker]

Oh, that's nothing! You should see them at eid time!! https://www.alamy.com/dhaka-banglad...-hasan-alialamy-live-news-image207985993.html

Try and tell them about covid 2m spacing . . . :-O




Rabbit added to mammals :t:

 

[3Italianbirders]

Collared Dove, surely? White tail tip; preening in 2nd pic so head not visible :t:

You are right. Wishful thinking... (CB is very common here and I have been looking for it for a while!)

 

[jurek]

Thompson's Gazelle and Blue Wildebeest
https://www.google.com/maps/@-1.549...4!1sDlDp0BkvsiNCWLbNTOKcZQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Giraffe
https://www.google.com/maps/@-1.282...=314.3507&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656
Nile Crocodile
https://www.google.com/maps/@-1.373...4!1so6aDEtZArzOR8H5jWmwJBg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Birders:
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.005...4!1sGPGSFk5Id2yLC_4VpXhkkQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[CerambyX]

Great Blue Heron in Vancouver
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.301...4!1sXMptKKWi5lmH_TmbhAP36g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

 

[Nutcracker]

Thompson's Gazelle and Blue Wildebeest
https://www.google.com/maps/@-1.549...4!1sDlDp0BkvsiNCWLbNTOKcZQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Giraffe
https://www.google.com/maps/@-1.282...=314.3507&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656
Nile Crocodile
https://www.google.com/maps/@-1.373...4!1so6aDEtZArzOR8H5jWmwJBg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Birders:
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.005...4!1sGPGSFk5Id2yLC_4VpXhkkQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Any idea which [sub]species of Giraffe? Split into several spp by some authors now.

Great Blue Heron in Vancouver
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.301...4!1sXMptKKWi5lmH_TmbhAP36g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

At last! Long overdue :-O #192 :t:

 

[MacNara]

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.