Re:[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor Spoonbill Stuff
Depends on what you mean by real. In last Harry Potter epidode Harry is in a heaven-like place discussing his last Voldermort encounter with Dumbledor."Professor," Harry asked, "Is this all real or is it just in my head?""Of course it's all in your head, dear boy, but that doesn't mean it's not real."I suppose ABA needs rules on this sort of thing. When is a mental image recordable - always, or is this source-dependent? They have rules for everything else, after all.I'd recommend doing whatever you want, actually. It's your life list, after all.Just saying...Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device Original message From: gle...@verizon.net Date: 7/28/21 11:10 PM (GMT-05:00) To: NYSbirds-L@cornell.edu Subject: Re:[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor Spoonbill Stuff Steve Walter’s spoonbill post got me thinking. Occasionally, when I’m bored at work, I’ll turn on the live East Hampton Beach Cam just to see what I can see. Surf, weather, birds, etc. I’ve been able to identify things like Barn Swallow, Sanderling, even LBB Gull. Would these count for Suffolk? With binoculars, light is bent through the lens arrangement to focus on your retinas. With the webcam, light is focused onto a CMOS chip, converted to zeros and ones, beamed to a satellite, beamed back to my computer, and then focused on my retinas.Same thing, right? The time difference between the two is negligible. I know, I know, it’s not the same. But it is “live” in the sense of time, and very real. (Not like that great Tom Brady video this week of him playing catch with a football passing machine). What if I happen to see a Yellow-nosed Albatross cruise across my monitor one day? Can I count it and, better yet, should I even report it….. The problems of the modern age. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor Spoonbill Stuff
Depends on what you mean by real. In last Harry Potter epidode Harry is in a heaven-like place discussing his last Voldermort encounter with Dumbledor."Professor," Harry asked, "Is this all real or is it just in my head?""Of course it's all in your head, dear boy, but that doesn't mean it's not real."I suppose ABA needs rules on this sort of thing. When is a mental image recordable - always, or is this source-dependent? They have rules for everything else, after all.I'd recommend doing whatever you want, actually. It's your life list, after all.Just saying...Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device Original message From: gle...@verizon.net Date: 7/28/21 11:10 PM (GMT-05:00) To: NYSbirds-L@cornell.edu Subject: Re:[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor Spoonbill Stuff Steve Walter’s spoonbill post got me thinking. Occasionally, when I’m bored at work, I’ll turn on the live East Hampton Beach Cam just to see what I can see. Surf, weather, birds, etc. I’ve been able to identify things like Barn Swallow, Sanderling, even LBB Gull. Would these count for Suffolk? With binoculars, light is bent through the lens arrangement to focus on your retinas. With the webcam, light is focused onto a CMOS chip, converted to zeros and ones, beamed to a satellite, beamed back to my computer, and then focused on my retinas.Same thing, right? The time difference between the two is negligible. I know, I know, it’s not the same. But it is “live” in the sense of time, and very real. (Not like that great Tom Brady video this week of him playing catch with a football passing machine). What if I happen to see a Yellow-nosed Albatross cruise across my monitor one day? Can I count it and, better yet, should I even report it….. The problems of the modern age. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor Spoonbill Stuff
Steve Walter's spoonbill post got me thinking. Occasionally, when I'm bored at work, I'll turn on the live East Hampton Beach Cam just to see what I can see. Surf, weather, birds, etc. I've been able to identify things like Barn Swallow, Sanderling, even LBB Gull. Would these count for Suffolk? With binoculars, light is bent through the lens arrangement to focus on your retinas. With the webcam, light is focused onto a CMOS chip, converted to zeros and ones, beamed to a satellite, beamed back to my computer, and then focused on my retinas. Same thing, right? The time difference between the two is negligible. I know, I know, it's not the same. But it is "live" in the sense of time, and very real. (Not like that great Tom Brady video this week of him playing catch with a football passing machine). What if I happen to see a Yellow-nosed Albatross cruise across my monitor one day? Can I count it and, better yet, should I even report it... The problems of the modern age. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor Spoonbill Stuff
Steve Walter's spoonbill post got me thinking. Occasionally, when I'm bored at work, I'll turn on the live East Hampton Beach Cam just to see what I can see. Surf, weather, birds, etc. I've been able to identify things like Barn Swallow, Sanderling, even LBB Gull. Would these count for Suffolk? With binoculars, light is bent through the lens arrangement to focus on your retinas. With the webcam, light is focused onto a CMOS chip, converted to zeros and ones, beamed to a satellite, beamed back to my computer, and then focused on my retinas. Same thing, right? The time difference between the two is negligible. I know, I know, it's not the same. But it is "live" in the sense of time, and very real. (Not like that great Tom Brady video this week of him playing catch with a football passing machine). What if I happen to see a Yellow-nosed Albatross cruise across my monitor one day? Can I count it and, better yet, should I even report it... The problems of the modern age. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor Spoonbill Stuff
I know there was a post a few days ago about entering the grounds of the Cold Spring Harbor Lab. It wasn't clear whether that pertained to driving in or even just entering on foot. But from the fishing pier today, I could see quite a few people on the shore at the south end of the harbor. And then I did learn that that was possible by walking in (a short enough distance from the fish hatchery). Well, whatever that says of my behavior, I did come away with pictures I can be happy with. I've posted one at my web site http://stevewalternature.com/ . I'm not sure that it's been mentioned. Maybe it's too obvious. But maybe it should be mentioned. The tide seems to be a factor in where it's going to be -- the harbor at low tide, St. John's Pond at high. It will be low tide from mid to late morning over the next few days. On this county listing thing -- which I must say is such a birder thing to do. But I'm curious. To count it for Nassau, do you have to be standing in Nassau with the bird in Nassau? Same for Suffolk. If you see the bird in the county opposite the one you're in, how does that work? Steve WalterBayside, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor Spoonbill Stuff
I know there was a post a few days ago about entering the grounds of the Cold Spring Harbor Lab. It wasn't clear whether that pertained to driving in or even just entering on foot. But from the fishing pier today, I could see quite a few people on the shore at the south end of the harbor. And then I did learn that that was possible by walking in (a short enough distance from the fish hatchery). Well, whatever that says of my behavior, I did come away with pictures I can be happy with. I've posted one at my web site http://stevewalternature.com/ . I'm not sure that it's been mentioned. Maybe it's too obvious. But maybe it should be mentioned. The tide seems to be a factor in where it's going to be -- the harbor at low tide, St. John's Pond at high. It will be low tide from mid to late morning over the next few days. On this county listing thing -- which I must say is such a birder thing to do. But I'm curious. To count it for Nassau, do you have to be standing in Nassau with the bird in Nassau? Same for Suffolk. If you see the bird in the county opposite the one you're in, how does that work? Steve WalterBayside, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Roseate Spoonbill at St. John’s Pond,Nassau and Suffolk Co.
For anyone interested in county listing, the bird is roosting now on Nassau side but was in Suffolk earlier. At south end of pond. Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Roseate Spoonbill at St. John’s Pond,Nassau and Suffolk Co.
For anyone interested in county listing, the bird is roosting now on Nassau side but was in Suffolk earlier. At south end of pond. Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor LI Roseate Spoonbill continues…
>From Ed Becher: Roseate continues.. being seen now from fishing docks looking
>west
See previous post for location details.
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manifestations of strength and resolution” ~ Khalil Gibran
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風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
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[nysbirds-l] Cold Spring Harbor LI Roseate Spoonbill continues…
>From Ed Becher: Roseate continues.. being seen now from fishing docks looking
>west
See previous post for location details.
“Tenderness and Kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but
manifestations of strength and resolution” ~ Khalil Gibran
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
Douglass
風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu The Art of War
> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (")
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
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