Far-flung GBBC Shemya Island
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Emperor Geese on Shemya Island, AK
A note from Bob Trotter:
A short note on Shemya's first GBBC. I went out 3 days with varying degrees of poor weather. Today I finally had the visibility to use the spotting scope and see Red-faced Cormorant on a near island. Snowdrifts and wind kept me from accessing the majority of beach roads. Rock sandpiper numbers were the big surprise, counted 566 from several photos. The highest number in the past was 193.
Bird watching as a novice
I have been birding for almost two years and consider myself a novice at best. The past three weeks I have seen very few birds in my back yard feeding stations. I live in the THUMB of Michigan. Can you tell me what might account for this?
Kip Walker, Unionville, MI
Thumb.
The thumb area of Michigan has vast old farm expanses of wide open areas with very little cover such as forest. This is very deadly for birds in the winter. Hope this answers one part of the puzzle.
Sand Hill Cranes
I heard and saw Cranes headed straight North in Louisville, Ky area on February 17 and 20. Single flights of about 20 birds. Does this mean winter is over ??
from Russia with love
Hi! I`m sorry for my bad English/ My name is Sergey, I`m a journalist & writer. I`m leaving in a village near Moscow, Russia. I never have been had watching birds, but now, in this summer, one bird built a birdhouse near my country-house! It built it on the apple tree near my window! There are only 7-8 yards between window & birdhouse! I began bird watching and I discover for myself that it`s a very interesting experience. Unfortunetelly, there absolutely aren`t any site or blogs for back-yard birds watchers in Russia or in Russian. But I`d like to talk with people who have more experience in B-Y-B-W then I. I had some photos `my` birds & her kids/ I think it`s TURDUS (in Latin) and DROZD in Russian, but I don’t know what`s it name in English. I could sending couple of them…
Bird Counts are incorrect
Greetings from the sleepy northwestern town of Suquamish, WA. I have been following the updated bird count for our locale, but must report that somewhere in your tallying you have lost a substantial individual number (20) of Northwestern/American Crows which I reported each day throughout the four-day count. Though they were "just" crows, I am hoping this isn't becoming indicative of these counts. Your data is only as good as the data you use - are you choosing to exclude certain data for some reason?