{"id":109403,"date":"2023-01-07T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T10:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=109403"},"modified":"2023-07-27T03:41:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T09:41:28","slug":"my-birding-by-ear-affliction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/01\/07\/my-birding-by-ear-affliction\/","title":{"rendered":"My Birding By Ear Affliction"},"content":{"rendered":"

My birding by ear affliction isn’t that I can’t hear birds; it is that I can’t not hear them. Even when I am on the phone with my friends.<\/p>\n

\"AmericanAmerican Crow on ice \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/800, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

If my friends or family are outside when we are talking on the phone I simply can’t stop listening for birds or trying to identify them via their songs or calls. I also can’t stop myself from saying “I hear crows<\/span><\/a>” or the name of whatever bird it is that I can hear. I just blurt it out. If I don’t recognize the song or call my brain stores it away so I can hopefully figure it out later.<\/p>\n

\"BarredBarred Owl and Spanish Moss in Florida \u2013 Nikon D200, f5.6, 1\/250, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Or if I am talking to a birding or bird photographer friend I can ask them if I am correct with my sound identification and not feel like such a complete and utter bird geek. If I am talking with family or loved ones who know me well then they already know I am a bird geek. They may have already heard me imitating a Barred Owl’s call of “who cooks for you<\/span><\/a>” or describing the call of some other species.<\/p>\n

\"BlueBlue Jay in Salt Lake County \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/800, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

My problem is that I simply can’t help myself. If I am hearing a bird call or sound in person, on TV, or on the phone my brain automatically, or maybe even auto-magically, goes into identification mode.<\/p>\n

Maybe I have a personality flaw? If I do I think I will call it “flawesome” because that very same trait always<\/em> helps me find my subjects when I am in the field.<\/p>\n

I am Mia and I am hopelessly addicted to birds.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Also see this post: I Am Never NOT Looking For Birds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my bird photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My birding by ear affliction isn’t that I can’t hear birds; it is that I can’t not hear them. Even when I am on the phone with my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109386,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5967,3755,27,13602,25,2324,2570,709,26],"tags":[4004,5969,970,3756,13612,13604,6577,3194,5968,5970,1051,13603,13609,4620,13610,4064,6792,2714,4094,3967,294,13608,4104,3759,3757,13611,4427,4095,373],"class_list":["post-109403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-crows","category-barred-owls","category-avian","category-blue-jays","category-florida","category-hillsborough-county","category-lettuce-lake-regional-park","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-american-crow","tag-autumn","tag-barred-owl","tag-birding-by-ear","tag-blue-jay","tag-branches","tag-corvids","tag-corvus-brachyrhynchos","tag-crow","tag-crows","tag-cyanocitta-cristata","tag-epiphytic-flowering-plant","tag-fall","tag-hardwood-hammock","tag-ice","tag-jay","tag-jays","tag-marsh","tag-owl","tag-owls","tag-peanut","tag-perched","tag-spanish-moss","tag-strix-varia","tag-tillandsia-usneoides","tag-tree","tag-wetlands","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t