[cayugabirds-l] Important- Contributing to the NY Breeding Bird Atlas Project via EBird.
All, The only way to contribute to the NY Breeding Bird Atlas is through the special NY BBA portal on ebird. To do this, you must go into your ebird checklist(s) and in the upper right click on "Checklist Tools" and a drop down menu appears and you will see "change portal". Click on that and scroll down to find NY Breeding Bird Atlas III portal. Change the portal and you will be contributing to the BBA and also the main ebird database. A really good website on how to do all this and for your mobile app and computer can be found here. https://ebird.org/atlasny/about/submitting-data To sign-up for a block go to this website: https://lab.nynhp.org/bba/ Left click on the block you are interested in and then click on request sign-up. Only the blocks in gray are available for you to be a principal atlaser. The role of the principal atlaser is to make sure over the next 5 breeding seasons that the following is completed for your block: - 20+ hours of daytime birding - 2+ hours of nocturnal birding - 55-95+ species reported (highly variable throughout the state) - 50% of reported species marked as ‘Confirmed’ - Visits in 3+ times of year (e.g., April, June, July) - All accessible habitats in a block are visited IMPORTANT: Other birders can contribute to any block!! As a principal atlaser, you don't have to do it all nor should you. That is what is different this time around. Other birders who submit through the NYBBA portal are contributing. All you need to know about NY's BBAIII project can be found on this website: https://ebird.org/atlasny/about I highly recommend looking through this. Any questions let me know. I would like to do more workshops and more importantly lead some BBA walks this June but we can't at this point due to COVID-19. I am trying to find the best way to do at least do more virtual workshops. Best and stay well,David NicosiaNY BBAIII Central Region Coordinator. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Pair of Kestrels
On Holden Rd, N. Lansing, btw. Storm & Brooks Hill Rds., along with a male Bluebird, about 4 pm! I saw the female Kestrel yesterday about the same time of day on nearby Brooks Hill Rd. Right now the fields are overgrown grasses or planted in some kind of short grass crop, not corn, - good for kestrels & the rodents they want to catch. Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Question
I was at Montezuma this morning. At the end near rt. 89 and above the Thruway I spotted a raptor soaring low. When I got my bins on it I could tell it was an eagle. As it banked in good light, it’s underside seemed golden rather than the brown of a Bald Eagle. Any idea what I saw? I had a a very quick look. By the time I got to 89, it was gone. For me the the biggest find was a Yellow Bellied Sapsucker on Mays Pt. Rd. Sent from my iPad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Great egret
Great egret on Sutton Rd. pond (Wayne County just south of Lyons, NY) just down from Josh Bacon's house (the house where the Bullocks Oriole was being seen). Pete Sar -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Strutting turkey
This morning we have a Tom turkey behind the house strutting his stuff in front of 5 females!!! Tail feathers fanned...strutting! Only 1 female seemed interested. Right now none of them do! Pete Sar -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Maine birds for masks
https://www.etsy.com/listing/757836384/eastern-bluebirdcloudberry-birds-and?ref=shop_home_active_6=1 -In case anyone is sewing masks or knows someone who will make them one..scroll down the site to see all the choices. Enjoy! -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
