In The Big Year, character Brad Harris (played by Jack Black) is shown enhancing his birding-by-ear skills with the aid of some iPod-like setup. His skills are astonishing. As one who believes most birding is audatory, I smiled with approval, but squirmed as my own repertoire is not all it can be. And my mind turned to the BirdJam application that has proven its mettle demonstrating birdsongs. I am wondering if I can build up my own skills with this gadget, say, on a new bird-by-day basis. The experiment is underway. For starters I'm picking birds I know I can encounter soon (Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens, etc.) and build into the spring migrants. Will it work? is my mind too distracted? Can I concentrate and retain that much so quickly? We shall see!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Cramming For Birding By Ear
In The Big Year, character Brad Harris (played by Jack Black) is shown enhancing his birding-by-ear skills with the aid of some iPod-like setup. His skills are astonishing. As one who believes most birding is audatory, I smiled with approval, but squirmed as my own repertoire is not all it can be. And my mind turned to the BirdJam application that has proven its mettle demonstrating birdsongs. I am wondering if I can build up my own skills with this gadget, say, on a new bird-by-day basis. The experiment is underway. For starters I'm picking birds I know I can encounter soon (Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens, etc.) and build into the spring migrants. Will it work? is my mind too distracted? Can I concentrate and retain that much so quickly? We shall see!
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