1.3.0 (2026-10-28): The films no longer depend on Vimeo's player. The two Ruby-throated Hummingbird films play from this site's own copies, so their names and facts stay timed to the film and Pause still works on them. Barred Owl Visits and Backyard Snow Birds play from Livid. Snow Birds and Lo-Fi Beats Vol. 1, House Finch Feeder Fight Fest and Bird Clips: Selects are switched off for now: Vimeo no longer plays them, and they come back once they are on Livid. A Livid film moves on to the next one after its running time, and Pause is hidden while one plays, because Livid's player does not take orders from this page. New Previous and Shuffle buttons sit beside Next. The wide hummingbird film is now the 25-second cut the homepage uses (it was 91 seconds); both of its cards fall inside it.
1.2.0 (2026-10-16): Bird names and facts. Films that have them can show the bird's name and an ID tip over the video, drawn by the page and timed to the film, with a switch here and on the player (Off, Names, Names and facts, or press C), remembered on this device. Full screen takes the video and the cards together, and on an iPhone the player fills the screen instead. First films with names: the two Ruby-throated Hummingbird films, also added to All birds. A line by this stamp now switches between the live site and the preview.
1.1.0 (2026-09-26): The footer now lists every page of the site, on every page, with the one you are on marked. Each page used to carry its own partial list, and the published contact sheets and the player carried almost none, so the deeper pages were only findable if you already knew they were there.
1.0.4 (2026-09-20): Legibility pass, styling only. The player itself is unchanged and no words changed. Nothing is under 12px now, the intro, playlist names and shuffle labels are 16px, and the grey used for labels and small print moved to a lighter sibling that measures 7.9 to 1 on the page and 7.3 to 1 on a selected row (it was 6.2 and 5.7 against a floor of 7). A playlist that is not available yet shows a dashed edge and quieter ink, where it used to fade to 45 percent and its words dropped under the floor. During playback the buttons and the title card sit on a darker layer, so their words measure 6.7 to 1 even over a pure white frame. Every link is a full 44px touch target and keyboard focus shows a visible ring.
1.0.3 (2026-09-19): A quiet Privacy link in the footer, pointing at the plain-language notice for this website at coltonland.com/privacy (what the visitor counter counts, what is never done, how to reach Colton). The player itself is unchanged.
1.0.2 (2026-09-18): Added the site's visitor counter (Cloudflare Web Analytics: no cookies, counts visits, not people). The player itself is unchanged.
1.0.1 (2026-08-09): Exit and Esc now leave the player even when the browser denies or lacks fullscreen, instead of waiting on a fullscreenchange event that would never fire.
1.0.0 (2026-08-09): First ship. Two bird playlists (All birds, Snow days), independent video/music queues, shuffle without immediate repeats, fade transitions, idle-fade controls, Chrome tab-cast. Music lane ships with "No music" only; the full library is mirrored and pending a license verdict.
The birds don't know they're background noise. Let's keep it that way.