Thanks for bringing that up Jay, no need to try to ID for this. By the
way, might be easier to break up the 5 minutes into 2 2.5 minute
periods so you can take a blink break!
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Jay K <[email protected]> wrote:
Michael,
I assume this is just a count of birds and not specific species? I
never just watched the moon but I figure it is nearly impossible to
determine species unless they happen to call? I may try here in San
Diego this evening, but our migration events are frustratingly
minimal coastally.
I did take in a nice migration at Liberty State Park, near Jersey
City NJ yesterday morning - Veery, Swainson's, Cape May Warbler,
BTGs, Wilson's, Ovenbird, etc. I miss those flights from the east...
Jay Keller
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From: Michael Lanzone <[email protected]>
Sent: Sep 2, 2009 8:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Interesting early papers on moonwatching
Hi all,
A number of you have indicated that you would like to participate
so I am
just sending some very brief instructions for anyone that wants to
participate. I am thinking that if possible between 10-11 and 11-12
we could
watch at least 2 times during the hour for 5 minutes. Only could
bird that
actually go through the lighted part of the moon, but you can note
others
that you see in your field of view. I will be doing this 4 times
per hour 5
minutes each time, starting at 9:00 pm. If you can only do this
once for 10
minutes that will be ok too. This is fairly informal now, hopefully
in the
future it can become more. You should record the time(s) you begin
and end,
your location- closest town or lat/long, # birds that pass the moon
(and
bats too if you see any), other observations, and optics used. Send
me your
results and I will post to the list once I compile. Possibly in
October we
can get more people to join in!
Best,
Mike
Michael Lanzone
Biotechnology and Biomonitoring Lab Supervisor
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Powdermill Avian Research Center
1847 Route 381
Rector, PA 15677
724.593.5521 Office
[email protected]
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Michael Lanzone
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
Tonight is supposed to be clear across much of the east and also a
full
moon, so was wondering if anyone was interested in trying to
coordinate some
kind of formal moon watch tonight. I was thinking for starters to
get this
off the ground possibly we could pick an hour or two tonight were
we watch
for 5 minute intervals 4 times an hour?? Anyone have any ideas on
this or
interested in trying to get something going? Hopefully for October
we can
have something a bit more formal, but I thought it would be a good
opportunity to get this started, anyone game??
Best,
Mike
Michael Lanzone
Biotechnology and Biomonitoring Lab Supervisor
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Powdermill Avian Research Center
1847 Route 381
Rector, PA 15677
724.593.5521 Office
[email protected]
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:20 AM, David La Puma <[email protected]
>wrote:
I just wanted to pop my head in and say "thanks" to those who put
this
list together (Chris? Andrew?). I'm stoked to be a part of it
now. I'd love
the opportunity to work on a project combining moon watching with
radar and
flight calls. As Mike said, "Let's do it!"
in the meantime, I'll be posting nightly radar and migration
interpretations for NYC and NJ on www.woodcreeper.com , so come
check it
out and contribute your FC observations to the discussion.
Cheers
David
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <
[email protected]> wrote:
FYI - I think there was a 1950 paper too, though I cannot
remember. .
.When everyone is ready, it is high time that we replicate
Lowery and Newman
(1966). With today's technology for synthesizing information,
we could do
it in a much more timely and large scale manner, AND we could
combine it
with FC and radar data in a way not possible in the 60s. . .
Best,
Andrew
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:20, Ted Floyd <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, all.
I was recently contacted by somebody who's preparing an
obituary for
William A. Rense, a leading solar physicist of the 20th
century. Here's
one of his publications:
Rense, W.A. 1946. Astronomy and ornithology. Popular Astronomy
54(2):55-73.
The article presents all the calculations necessary for
"moonwatching,"
that is, for determining the number of birds on nocturnal
migration
within a given volume of sky. And, interestingly, this article
precedes
by several month's George Lowery's famous 1946 paper on the
same topic
(Auk 63:175-211). Lowery and Rense were colleagues, actually,
so this
isn't a disputed-priority thing. But it's interesting how we
remember
the famous Lowery paper, not the original Rense article. (Even
though
Rense's appeared in a relatively high-profile venue. Auk...
Popular
Astronomy... Please.) In a sense, this is also a tribute to
Lowery's
commendable interdisciplinary outlook on science and nature.
What's also cool about the Rense article is that it reminds us
that all
of this had basically been worked out 40+ years earlier, during a
brief--and virtually completely forgotten--"golden age" of
research on
nocturnal migration. Moonwatching techniques are well described
in
papers published in 1902 (Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc.), 1906
(Popular
Astronomy), and again in 1906 (Auk).
(During that brief period of serious professional interest in
the topic,
there is an intriguing paper--by one Henry H. Kopman--on, among
other
things, the flight calls of wood-warblers. Farnsworth in a
previous
life...)
Anyhow, I thought some folks would be interested. I'll let
y'all know
when the Rense obit. is published.
Best,
Ted
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