Hi everyone, You may want to take a look at the eBird bar charts to give you an idea of what birds have been seen at Myers Point, Sapsucker Woods, Tompkins county or any state, county or birding location anywhere in the world. Whenever I go to a new location, or even to learn more about the birds around here, I look at the bar charts to better understand when to look for birds (and where).
The link below is just for Myers Point, which has some fairly nice bar charts given the good eBird coverage in Tompkins County. http://tinyurl.com/myerspoint Or the full URL below: http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?step=saveChoices&getLocations=hotspots&parentState=US-NY&bMonth=01&bYear=1900&eMonth=12&eYear=2011&reportType=location&hotspots=L99615&hotspots=L283458&continue.x=42&continue.y=9&continue=Continue If you click on the name of any species name on the bar chart, you can explore high counts, and also see a map that shows all the locations where the species has been seen (in this case, we are looking at Myers Point, so you will only see that location. If you click on the google marker on the map, you can see who saw the species, when and how many were recorded. So for Myers Point, you can see that there are 19 different reports of Black-crowned Night-Heron (many involving the same bird). It looks like this bird was first reported the 24th of July and has been seen off and on since then. Perhaps someone saw it earlier. If so, feel free to enter it into eBird. :) Thanks, Chris Wood Ithaca, New York On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Jill Vaughan <jil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Around 9 a.m. yesterday at Myers, a friend and I saw what we thought was an > immature Black-crowned Night Heron. We returned home to consult several > books, and visit three websites; the result was that we were reasonably > comfortable with our identification. However, since I lacked the confidence > in our skills, and since I did not think there was much history of BCNH(s) > at Myers, I did not post. I appreciate the post by Cir82 that confirmed our > identification. > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
