We had a Chipping Sparrow at our feeder on Snyder Hill on the 24th (reported
for FeederWatch), and I'm sure I first saw it a few days before that. Didn't
realize it was one of the first sightings of the year in the area.
Ray
On Mar 30, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Meena Haribal wrote:
> So the real question is, why did people first decide to report to several
> listservs on one day, but quietly report to eBird for a couple weeks?
>
> Dave,
> My guess is that when lot of people from different list serve report on one
> particular day, that day a big wave of birds arrived, so many people record
> them. When individual birds are seen, they are either overwintering birds or
> may be small contingent of them may come at earlier dates but do not get
> noticed so easily and do not get reported.
>
> As for reporting to e-bird list or to listserve or to both, which many do are
> individual reporters choices.
> Meena
>
>
> Meena Haribal
> Ithaca NY 14850
> http://haribal.org/
> http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
>
> From: bounce-43804163-3493...@list.cornell.edu
> [bounce-43804163-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Dave Nutter
> [nutter.d...@me.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:55 PM
> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] FW: [GeneseeBirds-L] Chipping Sparrow
>
> I thought Lisa Wood's Chipping Sparrow might have been a first arrival, but I
> try to remember to check eBird records before I revise the list of first
> arrivals to the Cayuga Lake Basin which is on the Cayuga Bird Club website
> here:
>
> http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/Resources/cayuga-lake-basin-first-records
>
> Anyway, eBird surprised me. The earliest local report was one heard by Jane
> Graves on Warren Rd on 20 March, and Tom Schulenberg had one at his place on
> Hanshaw Rd by the 25th. Outside the basin, Dave Spier had one northwest of us
> in Clifton Springs on the 21st, and southwest of us in Horseheads Mike Powers
> had one on the 15th and Jan Murphey had one on the 11th!
>
> So the real question is, why did people first decide to report to several
> listservs on one day, but quietly report to eBird for a couple weeks?
>
> --Dave Nutter
>
> On Mar 30, 2012, at 06:56 PM, Meena Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>> So looks like Chipping sparrows have reached our latitude on same day! In
>> last several years, I have found that first arrival of same species are
>> reported on same day to Cayugabirds, Geneseebirds and Oniedabirds often.
>>
>> It is really interesting to see that they move approximately same distances
>> north. What causes them to stop and not go further anymore?
>>
>> Meena
>>
>>
>>
>> Meena Haribal
>> Ithaca NY 14850
>> http://haribal.org/
>> http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
>>
>> From: geneseebirds-l-boun...@geneseo.edu
>> [geneseebirds-l-boun...@geneseo.edu] on behalf of Michael and Joann Tetlow
>> [mjtet...@frontiernet.net]
>> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 5:38 PM
>> To: geneseebird...@geneseo.edu
>> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Chipping Sparrow
>>
>>
>> A Chipping Sparrow just arrived at our yard feeder in Fairport. Our
>> previous earliest was April 7th last year. In the past we would normally
>> expect one around the 10th. Mike and Joann Tetlow
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