{"id":16374,"date":"2020-03-16T13:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2020-04-10T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:10:15","slug":"covid-19-eobs-approach-to-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=16374","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 &#038; EOB&#8217;s approach to tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I will be continuing on with Field Trips, however, a few changes will be taking place in order to ensure the health and safety of all participants.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please consider if you, the participant, are High Risk. If you are High Risk, I ask that you refrain from participation on tours.<\/li>\n<li>If you, the participant, have a cold, a cough, a flu etc, or, are just getting over an illness, I recommend that you take a pass on tours until you are fully healed.<\/li>\n<li>I will be outfitted with a group-sized stock of sanitizing wipes and hand-sanitizing products.<\/li>\n<li>For all tours, I ask that you pack your own food and drink (including lunches).<\/li>\n<li>I strongly recommend electronic payment methods (e-transfer) vs. paying by cash.<\/li>\n<li>Moving forward, I will be discouraging carpooling. I recommend that each participant (or, participants) must drive to-and-from tours in their own vehicle. This could, of course, mean a group of you in your own vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>Each participant\/each vehicle will be given a Walkie-Talkie, which will have been wiped down with an anti-bacterial wipe ahead of each tour, and placed in its own ziploc bag. At the end of each tour, I ask that you wipe the walkie down then place it back in its ziploc.<\/li>\n<li>Please pack, and use, your own camera gear and optical equipment (this includes scopes).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A reminder that the GREAT OUTDOORS is our refuge! Amidst all of this chaos, we all still need to take care of our well-being and tend to our basic needs. Outdoors-people quite literally NEED the fresh air to recharge, for example. If we, Eastern Ontario Birders, take the above precautions (and any others you may have in mind, yourself) I see no reason why we can\u2019t continue to enjoy birding\u00a0<span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">&#x1f642;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wishing you a clear mind and a steady heart in the coming days and weeks,<\/p>\n<p>Jon Ruddy<br \/>\nEastern Ontario Birding<br \/>\neontbird.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I will be continuing on with Field Trips, however, a few changes will be taking place in order to ensure the health and safety of all participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16407,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions\/16407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}