Actually the count period is always 3 days prior and 3 days after the count date.
As per the National Audubon CBC website "Count week is defined as from 3 days before to 3 days after your official count day. If your official count day is December 14, then your Count Week extends from Dec 11 to Dec 17 (and can therefore extend outside of the official count period of Dec 14-Jan 5)." Michael -----Original Message----- From: Larry Trachtenberg <trachtenb...@amsllp.com> To: Shaibal Mitra <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu>; Birdingonthe.net <NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu> Sent: Mon, Dec 16, 2013 10:00 am Subject: RE:[nysbirds-l] Captree CBC, Preliminary Results I understand that the first official day of the CBC Count Period was Saturday December 14 and the last day is Sunday January 5, 2014. Thus, for counts on Saturday 12/14, the count week period is 12/14-12/20 and for 12/15 the count week is also 12/14 -12/20 (not 12/12-12/18) hence the Gyr e.g. would not be in the Count week period because you do not extend back prior to the first day of the entire count period. For counts next weekend, the count week is three days before and three days after (because all dates are within the 12/14-1/5 period). Similarly for counts on Jan 5 – I understand you cannot extend the “count week” beyond Jan. 5 (the last official date). Hence the Count week would be 12/30-1/5 not 1/2-1/8. If I made any sense can someone confirm whether this is accurate as it comes from the patriarch of the Peekskill (northern Westchester) and Putnam County count circles. L. Trachtenberg Ossining, NY From: bounce-111146013-10490...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-111146013-10490...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Shaibal Mitra Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:46 AM To: Birdingonthe.net Subject: RE:[nysbirds-l] Captree CBC, Preliminary Results The preliminary species total was 118. Notable count-week birds included the previously reported Gyrfalcon at Cedar Beach and an Orange-crowned Warbler in Babylon Villange. From: bounce-111145988-11143...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-111145988-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Shaibal Mitra [shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:39 AM To: Birdingonthe.net Subject: [nysbirds-l] Captree CBC, Preliminary Results Forty participants conducted the Captree CBC yesterday, 15 December 2013. This Count circle is on the south shore of Long Island, around the Fire Island Inlet. One of the first birds of the day was a Snowy Owl that flew directly over members of the barrier beach parties as we assembled at Captree around 6:45--the first of an astounding tally of 14 Snowies on the count. A couple of additional good counts that were immediately obvious: 13 Wood Ducks 162 White-winged Scoters 321 Red-throated Loons 12 Razorbills 75 Horned Larks 22 Brown Creepers 188 Carolina Wrens 19 Winter Wrens 48 Field Sparrows 42 Fox Sparrows 44 Swamp Sparrows Other highlights included: 1 Snow Goose (Connetquot) 5 Eurasian Wigeon (East) 2 Canvasbacks (Gardiner) 2 Common Mergansers (Belmont) 2 Red-necked Grebes (Jones) 2 Great Egrets (Seatuck) 2 Black-crowned Night-Herons (Gardiner) 1 Northern Goshawk (Fire) 1 Rough-legged Hawk (Jones) 1 Greater Yellowlegs (East) 1 Pectoral Sandpiper (Heckscher) 1 Glaucous Gull (Fire) 2 Black-legged Kittiwakes (Fire) 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Seatuck) 1 Lapland Longspur (Heckscher) 1 Magnolia Warbler (Heckscher) 1 Palm Warbler (Fire) 1 Vesper Sparrow (Heckscher) 1 Eastern Meadowlark (Jones0 2,500 Common Grackles (North); we miss this species more often than not 4 Boat-tailed Grackles (Jones) Our worst misses included the following species, with the number in parentheses indicating the number of years each was recorded during the previous ten: Wild Turkey (7) Great Cormorant (10) American Kestrel (7) Virginia Rail (6) Marsh Wren (7) American Pipit (8) Chipping Sparrow (8) White-crowned Sparrow (6) Other obvious low counts included: 125 Red-breasted Mergansers 6 Sharp-shinned Hawks 76 Myrtle Warblers Shai Mitra & Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore, NY CSI has been ranked one of America’s Best Colleges 2014 (North East Public) by US News and World Report. -- NYSbirds-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! -- -- NYSbirds-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! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
