To clarify, the message from Joe & Carol Slattery was about the GENEVA count on Sunday January 3, with the count week including Thursday 31 Dec through Wednesday 6 Jan.
Meanwhile the ITHACA count is on Friday, New Year's Day, the first 24 hours of 2010. Keep track of any unusual birds in the Ithaca area starting midnight tonight, the start of 29 December until midnight at the end of Monday 4 January. This can help counters find the birds on count day, and if the birds are missed on count day they can still be included on count week. The count circle is a standard 15 miles in diameter, and I believe it is centered on Mount Pleasant. I believe it includes Dryden Lake, the north end of Scofield Road, just south of Myers Point, some of Sheffield Road, and a bit of lower Robert Treman Park as a few landmarks. But hey, any interesting bird in the area is worth posting about, even if you don't know if it's in the count circle or even in the Cayuga Lake Basin. --Dave Nutter >From: "Joe & Carol Slattery" <jslatte...@rochester.rr.com> >To: "'Dave Nutter'" <nutter.d...@mac.com> >Date: December 28, 2009 09:14:20 AM PST >Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Count Week > > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --