Re: [cayugabirds-l] Eastern Bluebirds around Mount Pleasant

[Marc Devokaitis]

Hi Eveline,

You may be interested in looking at the most recent abundance maps from
eBird Science --
https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends/species/easblu/abundance-map
.

These visualizations were created using data from 2008-2022, and show
the relative abundance of Eastern Bluebirds in different seasons, as well
as year-round. You can see that with the exception of the Adirondack region
(and around NYC? That seems odd...), there is at least some amount of
purple shading throughout New York, indicating areas where the species
could potentially be found at any time of year. Darker shading basically
means a more dense population.

The maps at All About Birds (and really any static range maps) are always
going to lack some of the subtleties around how likely one is to see a
species at a particular place and time, and, as you alluded to, can go out
of date (sometimes quickly) as species' ranges shift. The eBird Status and
Trends maps get updated regularly and offer additional insights about how
dense populations are, and how species move throughout the year. They're
pretty rad.

You could also use eBird to check how many others have reported bluebirds
around Mt Pleasant in January--one way to do this is to go to
https://ebird.org/map/easblu, set the custom date range for Jan-Jan, then
set the location for Ithaca, NY.  Then zoom in on Mt Pleasant and click the
pins in that vicinity to see details about January sightings.

Marc

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM Eveline V. Ferretti 
wrote:

> Hello friends,
>
>
>
> In my frequent walks around the Mount Pleasant fields, I’ve noticed a
> number of  Eastern Bluebirds there over the past few weeks. I’m used to
> seeing/hearing them in spring/summer/early fall. Not so much over winter.
> The distribution map
>  at All About
> Birds suggests that this area is part of their breeding season stomping
> grounds, and shows only downstate as part of their year-round area.  Are
> the bluebirds starting to overwinter here with us now too? Or are these
> just late leavers, so to speak (and if the former,  I guess that makes me
> wonder when new distribution maps will end up getting compiled, though I
> realize the erraticness (spelling? Is that even a word?) of global
> warming’s effects may be making the creation of reliable new maps/databases
> a bit difficult).
>
>
>
> Wondering,
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> Eveline
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[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Bluebirds around Mount Pleasant

[Eveline V. Ferretti]

Hello friends,

In my frequent walks around the Mount Pleasant fields, I’ve noticed a number of 
 Eastern Bluebirds there over the past few weeks. I’m used to seeing/hearing 
them in spring/summer/early fall. Not so much over winter.  The distribution 
map at All About Birds 
suggests that this area is part of their breeding season stomping grounds, and 
shows only downstate as part of their year-round area.  Are the bluebirds 
starting to overwinter here with us now too? Or are these just late leavers, so 
to speak (and if the former,  I guess that makes me wonder when new 
distribution maps will end up getting compiled, though I realize the 
erraticness (spelling? Is that even a word?) of global warming’s effects may be 
making the creation of reliable new maps/databases a bit difficult).

Wondering,

Eveline



Eveline Ferretti
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Albert R. Mann Library
Cornell University Library
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[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Bluebirds!

[Marie P. Read]

Hi all,
Such a gift this morning: 3 Eastern Bluebirds feeding in my berry-laden 
winterberry shrubs in the yard! I rarely get them up here on Mt Pleasant in the 
winter, last time was more than a decade ago. Two males and a female. Hope they 
return tomorrow when I'll be sitting in the photo blind I've just set up by the 
winterberry.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Marie

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[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Bluebirds in Caroline

[Heidi King]

A backyard first for us - and today when it was 19 degrees out!
Male and female Eastern Bluebird visiting our feeders.

In Berkshire/Caroline, on Goodrich Hill Rd.

-Heidi

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[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Bluebirds

[Therese O'Connor]

...at Campbell Meadow this morning about 9:15 AM.  Nice birding spot.
Therese

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