Citizen science is a great way to involve children and adults in the discovery of nature and contributing to scientific research and conservation. Project FeederWatch through Cornell University is a great way to get involved in citizen science. You can learn more at the Project FeederWatch website.
I typically watch birds on Saturday and Sunday. This is my report for 3-4 February 2018.
Created Using MS PowerPoint and Images from Project FeederWatch
Here is a map of the Project FeederWatch sites collecting counts this season.
Image Source Project FeederWatch
February 2018
The 2017-2018 season goes through 13 April 2018.
Bird Watching Notes
Saturday
Saturday was a sunny day, great for taking photographs.
Mourning Dove
This first picture was taken early in the morning.
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This picture was taken later in the day.
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More information on the Mourning Doves can be found at All About Birds.
Hairy Woodpecker
This is a female Hairy Woodpecker at the mixed nut feeder.
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More information on the Hairy Woodpeckers can be found at All About Birds.
Dark-Eyed Junco
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More information on the Dark-eyed Juncos can be found at All About Birds.
House Sparrow
At first I saw one House Sparrow eating black sunflower seeds.
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Then a second House Sparrow joined in right across from the first sparrow eating nijer seed.
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Then one of the sparrows decided to try the mixed nut feeder.
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More information on the House Sparrows can be found at All About Birds.
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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More information on the Red-Bellied Woodpeckers can be found at All About Birds.
Downy Woodpecker
This is a male Downy Woodpecker.
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More information on the Downy Woodpeckers can be found at All About Birds.
Northern Cardinal
Even the male Northern Cardinal took his turn at the mixed nut feeder.
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More information on the Northern Cardinals can be found at All About Birds.
American Goldfinch
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More information on the American Goldfinches can be found at All About Birds.
Sunday
There was a dusting of snow on Sunday.
European Starling
A flock of European Starlings flew in with one Red-winged Blackbird in their midst.
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And yes, they started another feeding frenzy at the nut feeders.
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More information on the European Starlings can be found at All About Birds.
House Finch
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More information on the House Finches can be found at All About Birds.
Bird Counts
Counts for Current Period
My bird counts for the two-day period 3-4 February 2018.
Snapshot from Project FeederWatch Bird Count Summary
Summary of Counts this Season
Snapshot from Project FeederWatch Bird Count Summary
Previous Project FeederWatch Post
Citizen Science: Project FeederWatch -- Count #12
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Thank You!
Thank you!
The entire project is getting some mainstream publicity. Case in point: "Your Birdfeeder Is a Battleground, But the Bigger Birds Don't Always Win."
All the underlying data for the above "bird feeder fight club" article came from the Project Feeder Watch data set.
So you had a hand in helping the guy who wrote it!
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National Geographic hosted a webinar presentation on what researchers are doing with Project FeederWatch data. It was eye-opening. They have also been using NEXRAD radar to track bird movements at night. Then they showed a new antennae sent to the International Space Station to track tagged animals and monitor migration habits. It all keeps one motivated for submitting the bird counts.
Yes, there is a lot of research being done by Cornell University and others.
Have a great week!
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Great work and great thoughts keep sharing your knowledge I follow you hope you will share more have nice day
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its my favorite topic of your posts. I anxiously wait every week for this post. Really amazing and interesting. You have done a fabulous job.
Have a great day!
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lovely birds .
I also want to feed. I take a resteem.
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Cornell University doing a great work , and huge thanks to you for sharing your knowledge and beautiful photography ,youare doin good on steem and university on your own place keep it up I love science and always try to research new things Thanks for sharing
God bless you
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Beautiful experience one again it was too see looks really wonderful thanks for sharing these shots :)
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This is my first comment in your post, it seems you are developing this project, I strongly agree and support various projects that are useful for the community. If possible, I am also willing to be member in your project. Thanks @etcmike
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The project is run from Cornell University. There is also an eBird project that is a world-wide bird watching project.
Have a great day!
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Here we have your bird post of weekend.
Awesome photography again of lovely birds, amazing to watch your love and passion for them...
Thanks for sharing@etcmike
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Your struggle cause Beautiful photography @etcmike. I appreciate your contribution to scientific research and conservation providing us.
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Its very good that cornell university is researching about birds.birds increase the beauty of nature.All the birds photographs are awesome☺
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wow even you also donate your steem doller to the poor people.nice thats great.i saw your image.thank you very much for donating to the poor people.
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Thank you!
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That poor little house finch looks so cold. I'd probably be out there plugging in heated bird houses for them. Nice work, as usual!
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Thank you!
There are some little birds like the Dark-eyed Junco that prefer cold weather. Just before warm temperature season arrives they fly north. The Dark-eyed Junco is a good fore teller of the arrival of spring.
This past weekend there were still a lot of Dark-eyed Juncos in the area even though the temperature was near 60 degrees (F).
Last night the area got covered with freezing drizzle. Everything is covered with a thin layer of ice. And for the next few days the high temperature will not be above freezing.
So when you see Dark-eyed Juncos in the area, the area is still in cold weather season.
Have a fantastic day!
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The project is indeed sure buddy a great way to introduce nature to the people !
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bird watching is fun and you are a master in that thanks for sharing it mike
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it was cool to watch out today's post of your nice experience and lots of birds spotted wonderful
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Thanks for sharing such a useful and informative post..
@etcmike.
Keep on steem.
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This is so great! You got the great point here......
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these are very special pictures so lovely to check them out
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thank you for visiting and supporting me this is a very meaningful motivation for me in promoting ethical steemit.
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Oh wow! Thank you so much for sharing these pictures! Theses are such beautiful birds!
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Great job sir. I appreciate your struggle. Very important and informative post thanks for sharing. Keep it up.
Wish you avery happy and bright future.
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Nice post like it and upvoted.
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Refund was just sent.
Looking forward to today's payout. And thank you for telling me about these bidbots. Very interesting, I have been studying them and placing a few bids to learn more.
Have a great day!
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Ahh shit.. I just realised the cap is 1 sbd. Can you send to my account instead? You should get your payout in the next 2 hour. So sorry again. I hope nothing will go wrong this time. I noticed you've been using the bot non stop ahaha. Don't abuse it man :D
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I was thinking of using the bot to upvote other Steemian's posts. That way I help out others and a small part of what I spend supporting their post is returned to me.
I have also tried front-running a few of the heavy promoters to increase my curation rewards.
It is all new to me and I am learning if there is any game-theory advantages through experimentation.
It is winter, stuck inside with freezing drizzle outside. Thought I would do some experiments and learn something new today (about the bidbots).
The refund was sent a few moments ago.
Steem on,
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Thanks! I really wish you have discord...
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Good job
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