Haikubox
My latest toy, and perhaps birthday and Christmas present, is a Haikubox * , “the smart device that brings you real-time alerts sound recordings, and loads of information about your birds.” With the huge popularity of the Merlin app since it added sound identification of birds, of course someone decided what we birders needed was a continuous monitoring of our yards for birds. Et violà, the Haikubox was invented. Made in Sarasota by people from Cornell. They were right. I love my Haikubox. It sends me alerts to my phone of all the birds in my yard. The screaming red shouldered hawks I hear, and the migrating warblers up in the trees that I’ll never see. Haikubox records them all. Some I’m on the lookout for: ruby throated hummingbirds, Eastern bluebirds, and brown thrashers. I’ve disabled the alerts for cardinals, Carolina wrens, and blue jays since they are around all the time. Spaulding said it was the lazy birder’s friend. According to him, now I don’t even have to go outside t...