Before recording a first record for the year for the basin, I try to remember to check eBird in case someone has quietly submitted a record earlier. When I saw that there were no other NY records yet, nor PA, nor CN, nor MA, nor OH, nor MD, nor VA, and the nearest Purple Martin record was from Cape May NJ just today, and the next nearest from NC, I began to wonder what was going on. Now I wonder whether those NJ records were decoys. Another thing to beware of is that some folks play Purple Martin sounds along with their decoys in a multimedia attempt to lure them to use a new martin house. This was tried at the Lab of O last year. --Dave Nutter On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at 05:01PM, "Joe & Carol Slattery" <jslatte...@rochester.rr.com> wrote: >
-- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
