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 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
