According to the following link on the Audubon web site, count week includes the three days before and three days after the count day, no matter what the date of the count is:
http://birds.audubon.org/faq/what-does-count-week-meanhow-it-used-do-i-recor d-numbers-observed-birds-i-ve-seen-count-week-do- Good bird counting! Willie From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Trachtenberg Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:59 AM To: Shaibal Mitra; Birdingonthe.net 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Shaibal Mitra [[email protected]] 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 <http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/region al-universities-north/top-public/spp+50/page+2> 's Best Colleges 2014 (North East Public) by US News and World Report. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> Please submit your observations to <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> Please submit your observations to <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> 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/[email protected]/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/ --
