/elsewhere/sightings/ (https://simonwillison.net/elsewhere/sighting/)

I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark II) so I’m taking a lot more photos of birds. I share my best wildlife photos on iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/), and based on yesterday’s successful prototype (https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/1/inat-sightings/) I decided to add those to my blog.

I built this feature on my phone using Claude Code for web, as an extension of my beats system (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/20/beats/) for syndicating external content. Here’s the PR (https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/pull/668) and prompt.

As with my other forms of incoming syndicated content sightings show up on the homepage, the date archive pages, and in site search results.

I back-populated over a decade of iNaturalist sightings, which means you can search for lemur (https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=lemur) you’ll see my lemur photos from Madagascar in 2019!

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