{"id":218,"date":"2008-11-19T20:09:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/personal-favourites\/birding-with-the-family\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:09:12","slug":"birding-with-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/personal-favourites\/birding-with-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding with the family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Birding with the family<\/strong> or rather getting in some <strong>birding<\/strong> while on a <strong>family holiday<\/strong> is a hard-earned skill. Early rises, minor detours, games and distractions for the kids&#8230;on the one hand we could talk about some of the tried and tested techniques that most birding parents are already familiar with, while on the other this is a subject matter that is essentially incomprehensible for <strong>birders<\/strong> with no offspring of their own.<\/p>\n<p>One basic rule that is recognised by beginner and expert <strong>family birder<\/strong> alike is the importance of choosing the right holiday destination.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Bell, author of the Natural Born Birder website, has had his own experiences of <strong>birding with the family<\/strong>, and has expressed an opinion which I wholly agree with:<\/p>\n<p>The island of <strong>Mallorca<\/strong> is one of the best spots in Western Europe for combining a family holiday with a spot of <strong>very good birding<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link to his site to see his photos, trip reports and comments on <strong>birding in Mallorca<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalbornbirder.com\/gallery\/mallorca.html\" title=\"birding with the family in Mallorca\">http:\/\/www.naturalbornbirder.com\/gallery\/mallorca.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, there&#8217;s a whole lot more that could be said about birding with the family, especially in a country like <strong>Spain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birding with the family or rather getting in some birding while on a family holiday is a hard-earned skill. Early rises, minor detours, games and distractions for the kids&#8230;on the one hand we could talk about some of the tried and tested techniques that most birding parents are already familiar with, while on the other [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-favourites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-3w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}