Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pine Siskins are like potato chips...except in Sapsucker Woods today

2011-10-06 Thread Kenneth Victor Rosenberg 
I'm glad Wes beat me to the punch, but this morning  I had at least two PINE 
SISKINS flying over my house calling -- I heard them several times and had the 
impression they were local birds moving about rather than multiples migrating 
overhead, but could have been wrong. So, at least there were several in the 
neighborhood today.

KEN


Ken Rosenberg
Conservation Science Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
607-254-2412
607-342-4594 (cell)
k...@cornell.edu

On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Wesley M Hochachka wrote:

Hi everyone,

   On my way in to work this morning, I was surprised to see a single PINE 
SISKIN sitting atop one of the snags on the west end of the main pond in 
Sapsucker Woods…surprised for two reasons:
(1)It seemed rather early for siskins to appear, although there was a 
little burst of eBird records in mid-September with none between then and now, 
and
(2)In my experience “siskins” is almost invariably plural…like potato chips.
I was puzzled as to how a single Pine Siskin could end up so early and so 
alone…and apparently with no other reports in the immediate area and date 
range.  I think I know what happened now, thanks to Dave Bonter pointing out 
today’s blog entry from Braddock Bay: roughly 350 Pine Siskins hit the nets in 
Braddock Bay yesterday without any warning of a lead-up trickle over the 
previous days.  So, it appears that there was a big movement of siskins into 
this general region, and I presume that the lone bird that I saw was either 
navigationally or socially challenged and overshot the main movement.

Wesley Hochachka

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pine Siskins are like potato chips...except in Sapsucker Woods today

2011-10-06 Thread Matthew Medler 
This is a great excuse to plug eBird's great new mapping interface:

http://ebird.org/ebird/map/pinsis?neg=true&env.minX=&env.minY=&env.maxX=&env.maxY=&zh=false&gp=false&mr=on&bmo=10&emo=10&yr=1900-2011&byr=1900&eyr=2011

A quick check of this map shows that it's not unusual for Pine Siskins reports 
in our area in early to mid October and it's also not unusual for single 
individuals to be reported.


What a great eBird tool--much better than digging through old Cayugabirds 
messages!

Matt Medler
Ithaca




From: Wesley M Hochachka 
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 4:16 PM
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Pine Siskins are like potato chips...except in 
Sapsucker Woods today


Hi everyone,
 
   On my way in to work this morning, I was surprised to see a single PINE 
SISKIN sitting atop one of the snags on the west end of the main pond in 
Sapsucker Woods…surprised for two reasons:
(1)    It seemed rather early for siskins to appear, although there was a 
little burst of eBird records in mid-September with none between then and now, 
and 
(2)    In my experience “siskins” is almost invariably plural…like potato chips.
I was puzzled as to how a single Pine Siskin could end up so early and so 
alone…and apparently with no other reports in the immediate area and date 
range.  I think I know what happened now, thanks to Dave Bonter pointing out 
today’s blog entry from Braddock Bay: roughly 350 Pine Siskins hit the nets in 
Braddock Bay yesterday without any warning of a lead-up trickle over the 
previous days.  So, it appears that there was a big movement of siskins into 
this general region, and I presume that the lone bird that I saw was either 
navigationally or socially challenged and overshot the main movement.
 
Wesley Hochachka
 
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