{"id":3082,"date":"2010-11-20T16:57:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T21:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2010\/11\/new-eyes\/"},"modified":"2010-11-20T16:57:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T21:57:23","slug":"new-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2010\/11\/new-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening this morning to radio host Scott Simon interviewing Donald and Lillian Stokes, authors of the Stokes Field Guide to Birds celebrating it&#39;s 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>They were out with Simon in a park in urban Washington, D.C. and were seeing a number of birds common to anyone&#39;s backyard bird feeder, including black-capped chickadees.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Stokes said people often ask : &quot;After thirty years, don&#39;t you get tired of seeing the same birds over and over?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;No, I never do,&quot; he replied, and went on to note that he always seemed to find something to admire about or learn from each sighting, even of a common bird.&#0160; &quot;The challenge in life,&quot; he went on, &quot;is not finding new places, but having new eyes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0133f645c598970b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2301\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0133f645c598970b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0133f645c598970b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"2301\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening this morning to radio host Scott Simon interviewing Donald and Lillian Stokes, authors of the Stokes Field Guide to Birds celebrating it&#39;s 30th anniversary. They were out with Simon in a park in urban Washington, D.C. and were seeing a number of birds common to anyone&#39;s backyard bird feeder, including black-capped chickadees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}