{"id":177,"date":"2008-10-02T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T08:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/competitions\/birding-through-the-car-window\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T08:22:37","slug":"birding-through-the-car-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/competitions\/birding-through-the-car-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding through the car window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a photo I took towards the end of last winter:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/carbirds.jpg\" alt=\"birding from the car\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How very uninteresting, right? However, there are birds in the photo. Take my word for it and have a closer look:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bustards1.jpg\" alt=\"birds from the car in Spain\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;ve established that those dark smudges are birds, and probably of the same species, we may begin to ask ourselves: what species? You&#8217;d have to be a megacrack or just extremely fluky to correctly identify the species from this photo, so let&#8217;s get within a reasonable working distance:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/bustards2.jpg\" alt=\"Birding from the car with digital zoom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mmm. we still haven&#8217;t got much to go on, but I&#8217;m afraid there&#8217;s no more &#8211; if I had attempted to approach the birds they would probably have flown away, or the farmer would rightly have insulted me for trampling his alfalfa. One of these days I&#8217;ll buy a decent camera. In the meantime, let&#8217;s get back to the main question:<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the make of the car?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a photo I took towards the end of last winter: How very uninteresting, right? However, there are birds in the photo. Take my word for it and have a closer look: Now we&#8217;ve established that those dark smudges are birds, and probably of the same species, we may begin to ask ourselves: what species? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-2R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}