Hey All,
I'm no expert and perhaps that makes my two cents more valuable. All I
seem to need are the numbers and the first decimal point to be able to
successfully plug the locations into both my car GPS and my iPhone. It
would seem that anyone that needed a more sophisticated way of listing
Probably more important than DD (degrees decimal) or DMS (degrees minutes
seconds) is that all submitted data uses the same system. Most common are
NAD 27 and WGS 84.
Everyone taking GPS coordinates in the field needs to use the same data
system when submitting the DD or DMS to you.
But back
What it really boils down to is how accurate you want to get. I
f you start at the extreme 1 second is approximately 90 feet give or
take depending on your location. That means that one minute is roughly
equal to 5,400 feet and one degree 324,000 feet.
So if you take 1/10th of a degree you get
The metric Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates were
pretty convenient for pinpointing locations on printed USGS topos, as
UTM grid ticks are shown in the margins. The block grid of the New
York State Breeding Bird Atlas follows UTM. I still have a few USGS
sheets on which I
John and Karen Confer and I spent a sunny hour at the compost piles
this morning from 8:30 to 9:30. The Iceland Gull recently seen by Dave
Nutter and others was present from the beginning. As the morning
progressed, scores of additional gulls streamed in from the direction
of the Lake. We
OK, OK!!
We will go with the decimal degrees format. It does appear to be the
most straight forward.
Thanks for all of your responses. Now, get outside and enjoy the day!
Bob
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Hey Everyone,
Just got confirmation of this a little while ago. I will be speaking on
WVBR tonight at 6:40. I think it will mostly be about the Christmas Bird
Count and perhaps a little bit about the club. (I hope)
I invite you to tune in if you have the time.
Shin Hollow Radio
Shin Hollow
CayugRBA SNOWY OWL far south of NYS-31 in mucklands, Montezuma 340pm
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I was just walking on Hopkins road near the Medical Center and a large
raptor went over south to north, leaving a large stand of trees to head for
another, bigger one across a field. I had no binoculars, and it was fairly
far off (at least 300 yards at its closest)
--It appeared very dark (the
This afternoon I took a relaxed trip up the west side of Cayuga Lake to the mucklands along NYS-31 west of the Village of Montezuma. I did not fortify myself with scrapple per Steve Fast's recommendation, but perhaps my overly-spicy Italian sausages from yesterday had some lingering effects,
Sorry for the late post. Yesterday evening I went to Hog Hole where
the Thayer's Gull was resting on the docks in the marina. Other
highlights below.
Hog Hole Ithaca, Tompkins, US-NY
Dec 17, 2011 4:01 PM - 4:51 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.9 mile(s)
Comments: I came here to see if there were any
Another use of these coordinates is tagging photography--taking a picture
of a bird with a gps-capable camera produces the coordinates where the
bird was sighted (actually, where the birder was standing when the bird
was sighted). Looking on flickr, I see the flickr map function uses the
decimal
Hi Bob,
Great question as I know different folks relate differently to numbers.
My personal preference is the decimal degrees for lat-long. That is what I
have my hand-held GPS unit set to.
Jody
Jody W. Enck, PhD.
Research Associate, Human Dimensions Research Unit
Department of
I would STRONGLY advocate for decimal degrees. That does not mean degrees plus
decimal minutes by the way.
I'm engaged in building a database for our worldwide deployments of acoustic
listening devices and believe me, the 17 different ways people write down
locations are a nightmare to encode
The Red-winged Blackbird (male) I reported earlier in the week is at my feeders
this morning here in Brooktondale.
Annette
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My most common use is to plunk the DD decimal degrees coordinates into Google
Maps on my phone. It works 100% of the time. My GPS mapping program uses DD or
DMS.
The other GPS driving applications I use, GPS Drive and MapQuest, always seem
to get confused so I have to enter locations in
If anyone is heading downtown in Ithaca, I recommend a stop at Stewart Park -
with the bright sun and calm lake, the thousands of geese, ducks, and gulls,
offer an unusually spectacular view. Many of the birds are in very close. Among
the thousands of CANADA GEESE, MALLARDS, and the common 3
Folks...We have been having visits from a male Rufous-sided Towhee over
the last several weeks. He is landing on our deck and enjoying the
seeds dropped from several feeders. We have lived in this house on the
Ithaca edge of Brooktondale and had feeders out for over 25 years, and
only once
It is rare but not totally unheard of. There are some Nov. Dec and Jan
ebird reports for them And yes, Towhees are in the sparrow family, so feed
on the ground. This is cool, do you have any idea if you are in the count
circle for the Christmas Bird Count. You can check that out on our bird
club
I guess the other 99+% of the geese are no-good?
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[mailto:bounce-39017438-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kenneth
Victor Rosenberg
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 2:29 PM
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Eastern Towhee is indeed an unusual bird around here at this time of the year.
It has been recorded on the Ithaca Christmas Count 17 of the last 48 years.
Rarely do we ever record more than one, although last year we had two. High
count was six in 1982.
Kevin
From:
Another (or the same?) SNOWY OWL was just reported flying across Tschache Pool
at Montezuma NWR. They're coming
Ken Rosenberg
Conservation Science Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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607-342-4594 (cell)
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On Dec 18, 2011, at 3:40 PM, 6072292...@vtext.com
This snowy owl is probably the same bird and is now in the back of tschache
pool next to a tiny polynya filled with terrified coots!
On Sunday, December 18, 2011, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg k...@cornell.edu
wrote:
Another (or the same?) SNOWY OWL was just reported flying across Tschache
Pool at
Keep an eye out for a gorgeous male WOOD DUCK at the south end of the lake. I saw it off Stewart Park on Wednesday 14 December. Sorry I forgot to post it, as that was a busy taxi day. On 10 December I also saw a flock of about 20 NORTHERN PINTAIL off Stewart among the CANADA GEESE. They took
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