For people who are in to yard listing and/or citizen science, you might be interested in a new gadget.
I recently bought a haikubox. This is a box you plug in to an external outlet at your home and it constantly listens for birds and uses your wifi. You use an app or website to see what it hears. It records short intervals and you can listen and verify accuracy . It keeps ongoing data you can download or track online. It shares the data with Cornell Labs and the haikubox network. Diana Beatty El Paso County On Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 9:23 AM 'Norm Lewis' via Colorado Birds < cobirds@googlegroups.com> wrote: > PPS- I should have read the directions a little morel closely- I would say > I fall into the obsessed category- I keep 10-15 feeders active, depending > upon the season, and have a semi-wild area on my back hill, as I live in a > little valley and the upper back yard areas on the street are not > developed, which gives me about an eighth of an acre of mixed trees and > brush. > > Whew. I think that's all! > > Norm > > On Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 08:33:54 AM MDT, Thomas Heinrich < > teheinr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > Another quick update on the lists. In addition to the 350 species on > Google list that Bryan has set up, I have another 26 species from birders > who have sent lists directly to me. > > So the current total # of species: *376* > > Getting close to 400! > > I hope to have the list I'm compiling wrapped up this weekend and off to > Bryan to merge with his Google sheet. The list will include names and > counties. Please let me know if you would prefer to remain anonymous. Also, > if there is a particular species (or couple of species) that you ticked off > on Bryan's list that you would like to have your name next to on the new > list, please let me know. I'll be attempting to include all who have > contributed to the list in an equitable way. > > Thanks again to all who have shared and contributed, > > Thomas > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:40 AM Thomas Heinrich <teheinr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Every now and then one of us will share the excitement of adding a rarity > or new species to a yard list, report yard list totals, or comment on local > trends. And some of the lists, and variety of species, are really > impressive (e.g. David Suddjian's, Gary Lefko's). > > Yellow Grosbeak, Pyrrhuloxia, Streak-backed Oriole, Long-billed Thrasher, > Costa's Hummingbird, Laurence's Goldfinch, and even Anhinga come to mind as > rarities that have shown up in or been observed from yards. (Perhaps the > recent Brambling, too?) > > As a pretty obsessive yard lister (i.e. binocs always on, camera ready > when outdoors, much of the time indoors too), I often wonder about others' > experience with yard-listing. > > How long have you been keeping your list? > What's your style of yard listing: casual, mainly feeder watching, > moderate, dedicated, obsessed? > How many species? > Rarest, or favorite species? > Most memorable experience? > Location/habitat: urban, suburban, rural, etc? > > And the big question: if we tallied up all our yard lists, how close to > Colorado's 520 species could we get? > > It seems likely that certain families would be less well-represented; > shorebirds, waterfowl, and gulls, for example. But with neighborhoods > lining bodies of water such as Boyd Lake, Lake Loveland, Marston Reservoir, > Jackson Lake, and MacIntosh Lake (in Boulder), among many others, many of > those species theoretically could have been counted on a yard list. Maybe > some lucky person living on the shores of Boyd Lake has Long-tailed Jaeger, > Slaty-backed Gull, and Garganey on their yard list! > > Wishing all good health, good birding, and an exciting Spring migration! > > --Thomas Heinrich > > > *My answers to the questions above*: > 15 years > Dedicated to obsessive > 152 species > Wood Thrush, Yellow-throated Warbler, N Cardinal, Common Redpoll, Bohemian > Waxwing > Watching spring raptor migration from the roof-top, 35 Broad-winged Hawks > among 130 raptors of 10 species on one high-flow day (4/18/2020) > Interface between suburban and open space, base of foothills, el. 5600' > > -- > Thomas Heinrich > Boulder, CO > teheinr...@gmail.com > www.pbase.com/birdercellist > > > > -- > Thomas Heinrich > Boulder, CO > teheinr...@gmail.com > www.pbase.com/birdercellist > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds > * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. 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