Re: [nfc-l] Flight Call Exemplar Database?

2012-08-26 Thread Mike Farmer
. Nothing fancy. Just to be able to adjust the clip so as to match up to our new data base of calls. Wow. We can dream. -Mike Farmer From: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 10:27 AM To: NFC-L Subject: [nfc-l] Flight Call Exemplar Database? I'm curious to know

Re: [nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Listening stations - Through May 7, 2012

2012-05-11 Thread Mike Farmer
migrate another way in the spring? As Mike says, it takes years of data to show anything. This could all just be within the sampling error. But perhaps someone out there knows something about sparrow migration that may explain it. -Mike Farmer From: Caitlin Coberly Sent: Thursday, May 10

Re: [nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Hourly count - Through May 7, 2012

2012-05-11 Thread Mike Farmer
on thrushes! Is the warbler one really yet? How cool is that! -Mike Farmer From: David La Puma Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 10:29 AM To: NFC-L Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Hourly count - Through May 7, 2012 Jesse et al. My thought was that birds are going to migrate for 100's of miles

Re: [nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Hourly count - Through May 7, 2012

2012-05-11 Thread Mike Farmer
Farmer -Oldbird and Raven Pro detectors are greatnewbies, use them! From: Lewis Grove Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 8:26 AM To: Andrew Albright Cc: Mike Farmer ; NFC-L Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Hourly count - Through May 7, 2012 Hi Andrew and all, Automated detection of calls

[nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Listening stations - Through May 7, 2012

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Farmer
would seem to fit a bell-shaped curve just fine. Or maybe a left or right skewed one at least. Especially if the north wind nights with small flights are removed from the data. -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush, GlassOFire, Raven Pro, Excel -- NFC-L

Re: [nfc-l] Help with short flight call

2012-05-03 Thread Mike Farmer
Well, at the risk of total humiliationI believe it’s a Canada Warbler. What you see is the back end of the sonogram. Once you see that, you can just see in GlassOFire the hint of the rest of the sonogram. And in Raven Pro, you can tease it out some. -Mike Farmer equipment Mic

[nfc-l] Do Barn Owls migrate?

2012-04-24 Thread Mike Farmer
for last night. -Mike Farmer -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http

Re: [nfc-l] Unknown Hunterdon NJ Night Flight Call

2012-04-23 Thread Mike Farmer
Yes! I have been looking at this great wind map since Chris alerted us to it. The last 1O days there have been extended days in which most of the eastern US, and Texas, had north winds and there has been a near complete collapse in recording data in Austin during those times. And like

Re: [nfc-l] roll call!

2012-04-09 Thread Mike Farmer
the coast. And I have a portable one that runs from the car for trips this month when camping next to migrant traps of coastal Texas. The purpose of this one is mostly to gather more examples of sonograms. Don’t laugh at mePlease! -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird

[nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Listening stations - March 15 to March 31, 2012

2012-04-02 Thread Mike Farmer
be! Anyone there? Hello? Anyone? -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush, GlassOFire, Raven Pro -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC

[nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Listening stations - Jan 1 to March 15, 2012

2012-03-16 Thread Mike Farmer
ever told me! -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush, GlassOFire, Raven Pro -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES

[nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Part 2. semi-automating a night flight station using OLDBIRD software and Excel

2012-01-09 Thread Mike Farmer
. Later you can make another table in the worksheet to display the percentages that each bird made up of each night’s flight. Or to display the hourly count for each species or ... Life is good. Go birding. -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush

Re:[nfc-l] Austin, Tx - Part 1. Semi-automating a night flight station using OLDBIRD software and Excel

2012-01-09 Thread Mike Farmer
may spend all day Saturday working on your unknowns. Ha. -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush, GlassOFire, Raven Pro -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http

[nfc-l] Austin, Tx - another macro

2012-01-05 Thread Mike Farmer
This excel macro counts the number of flight calls for a given hour of the night. There are two arguments to the function, folder name and hour of day. So for instance, if you have all your birds in individual folders, you can put a row in excel of the folder names and down the left

[nfc-l] Austin, TX - Listening Stations - 24 Nov to 31 Dec

2012-01-04 Thread Mike Farmer
day time field recording of LeConte’s for comparison to nightly sonograms. Nelson Sparrows? We have recorded 102 possible Nelson’s. Which are listed as accidental in Austin according to bird checklists. Exciting...if true -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software

[nfc-l] Austin, TX - Listening Station - Getting GlassOFire to display tic marks

2011-12-19 Thread Mike Farmer
to be incorporated into GlassOFire so that it’s automatic. This method of adding tic marks would be so easyjust add the two wav files before display.that my heart aches.But until then.. -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush, GlassOFire, Raven Pro

[nfc-l] Austin, TX - Night Flight - 16 to 30 Nov

2011-12-05 Thread Mike Farmer
enough. -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush, GlassOFire, Raven Pro -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES

[nfc-l] Austin, TX - a newbie's point of view

2011-11-18 Thread Mike Farmer
display as in GlassOFire.This hobby is in great need of these sonograms. To this point, OLDBIRD displaying his ALFRED data on their website is a great start.I just wish he had more sparrows! -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush, GlassOFire, Raven Pro

[nfc-l] Austin, TX - Night Flight - 1 to 15 Nov

2011-11-17 Thread Mike Farmer
sonograms? Houston? Corpus? .hello? -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush, GlassOFire, Raven Pro -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC

[nfc-l] Austin, Texas - excel macro

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Farmer
have a semi-automated night call station.all that remains, of course, is the classifying of the actual sonograms as to species. Someday..someday. -Mike Farmer equipment Mic- Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird Tseep, Thrush, GlassOFire and Raven Pro -- NFC-L List Info: http

Re: [nfc-l] Austin, Texas - Night Flight -

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Farmer
basis for their system. What we need now is a modification of the spread sheet to count how many birds are within a minute of each other. I am trying to work on that so that one more tedious task dies a timely death. -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, t

[nfc-l] Austin, Texas - Night Flight -

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Farmer
very good and fast at separating out and counting the birds with well known and unique sonograms. After that, so far I have had up to 50% unknowns for any night. To me, this is a hobby with a nice mix of instant gratification and probably a lifetime of new discoveries. -Mike Farmer equipment

[nfc-l] New listening station - Austin, Tx

2011-11-02 Thread Mike Farmer
ther Austin area stations starting next spring. I post this to hopefully show other newbies just how easy it can be to get started in nocturnal migration recording. -Mike Farmer -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES