[cayugabirds-l] birding software for Mac?

[Gordon Bonnet]

Hi,

I have my bird sightings recorded on a wonderful program called BirdBrain,
but because the FileMakerPro feature that it uses is no longer supported,
it crashes every time I try to add data.  (I've talked to the owner of
BirdBrain, who was really nice & sympathetic, but he's discontinuing
selling his software because he doesn't have a good solution).  I'm looking
for a good alternative to BirdBrain for Mac -- he recommended Scythebill,
which is a free download, but so far it seems pretty clunky to me (and also
didn't transfer any of the hundreds of images I had stored on BirdBrain).

Does anyone have suggestions?  It doesn't have to be free software, happy
to purchase something if it's user friendly and has good reviews.

Thanks,

Gordon

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] bird song recording (2)

[Gordon Bonnet]

Thanks so much!  It had me really puzzled…

cheers,

g




> On Jul 20, 2018, at 10:06 PM, Sandy Podulka  wrote:
> 
> Hi Gordon,
> 
> It's a Song Sparrow.  The first few notes are very quiet and hard to hear, 
> and then it bursts into the loud trill with the higher note at the end. 
> Perhaps it is not always even singing those first few notes!
> 
> Sandy Podulka
> 
> At 10:35 AM 7/20/2018, you wrote:
>> And here’s the second clip.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> cheers again,
>> 
>> Gordon
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[cayugabirds-l] bird song recording (2)

[Gordon Bonnet]

And here’s the second clip.cheers again,Gordon
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[cayugabirds-l] bird song recording

[Gordon Bonnet]

Hi y’all…Last week I tried to describe an unknown bird song — a short, steady musical trill with a slight pause and a single higher note, one full step up in pitch.  It took us a while — he was really good at avoiding being recorded — but we finally got two recordings of it.  In the first he vocalizes twice, once (quietly) right at the beginning, and a second time (louder) at the end.  The second is only once but is a little better quality.  Because of the size of the files I’m sending them in two separate emails.Any ideas?cheers,Gordon BonnetTrumansburg
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[cayugabirds-l] bird song question

[Gordon Bonnet]

Hi…

I keep hearing a bird in & near my house (in Trumansburg), but haven’t been 
able to see it — always too well hidden in underbrush, usually down by my 
creek.  (Not dense woods, just lots of places to hide.)  Its song is a steady 
trill (all on one pitch) followed by a single, higher note — “trr 
cheep” — with a distinct gap between the trill and the last note.  It’s quite 
emphatic, and doesn’t have the thin quality I’ve heard in a lot of warbler 
songs.

I’ve gone through all of the birds I thought were possible candidates and have 
listened to recordings online — and I can’t find one that’s even close.  Does 
anyone have any ideas?

I’ll keep trying to see it, but several days and no luck…

Thanks for any help

Gordon Bonnet
Trumansburg NY
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[cayugabirds-l] Bohemian Waxwings/Sapsucker Woods

[Gordon Bonnet]

Flock of Bohemian Waxwings -- about a dozen birds, as far as I could see -- in 
some berry-bearing trees on the north Wilson Trail.  Very cooperative (not to 
mention beautiful)!  I was there at around 4 PM.

cheers,

Gordon Bonnet
Trumansburg NY
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[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard 5/21

[Gordon Bonnet]

Carol  I spent a pleasant hour and a half birding at the Hawthorn Orchard this 
morning.  Highlights:

Awesome views of a singing Wood Thrush
More Blackpolls and Tennessee Warblers than I could keep track of
Great looks at a singing Bay-breasted Warbler
Many American Redstarts, Red-eyed Vireos, and other usual suspects

Also;  in the spruce trees on the corner of the Ithaca Recreation Trail and 
Honness Road were two singing male Cape May Warblers.  Got 'em finally -- a 
life bird after about ten years' looking!

cheers,

Gordon Bonnet
Trumansburg
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[cayugabirds-l] Myers -- eiderless once again

[Gordon Bonnet]

I was at Myers from a little before 4 till sundown, and there were  
large flocks of Mallards  Coots (plus one Red-breasted Merganser and  
three Great Blue Herons) -- no Eider that I could see.  I scanned the  
large Mallard flocks one bird at a time, and nada.  There was one  
raft of ducks further out that I couldn't resolve with binoculars, so  
perhaps the Eider was further out, but a walk from the parking area  
to the lighthouse, then across to the marina and south along the  
shore, turned up no Eider.


Gordon

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[cayugabirds-l] Myers this afternoon?

[Gordon Bonnet]

I'm going to give another (this'll be four  counting...) try for the  
King Eider today -- won't be able to get down to Myers till 4 PM or a  
little after, but wondering if anyone else will be out that way   
maybe we can pool our efforts?


cheers,

Gordon

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