December 10, 2024
| White-crowned Sparrow by Laura Frazier |
For the ninth season in a row, Undertaking FeederWatch and our sponsor Wild Birds Limitless are rewarding registered FeederWatchers with the possibility to win prizes. Celestron has joined the enjoyable by providing one pair of binoculars to every knowledge entry contest winner as effectively. After getting into counts into the FeederWatch web site, on the submission affirmation web page, contributors have the chance to share a narrative, reminiscence, or tip by clicking the “Enter to Win” button. Two winners will likely be chosen at random per immediate. Our first Knowledge Entry Contest immediate of the thirty eighth season was:
Inform us why you wish to FeederWatch. If that is your first time FeederWatching, what drew you to it?
Congratulations to our winners, Carrie Swan and Jeff Man!
Carrie shared:
I’ve been scuffling with psychological well being points and discover watching the birds a soothing distraction. I downloaded the Merlin Chicken ID app earlier this 12 months and typically wish to let Sound ID run to see what birds are round me. By the Merlin Chicken ID app, I discovered about FeederWatch and thought it is likely to be enjoyable to show my birdwatching into one thing helpful.
Merlin Chicken ID is an app that serves as a pocket ID information, with useful options equivalent to Step by Step ID, Photograph ID, and Sound ID. The Sound ID function Carrie talked about “listens” to chook songs in actual time and suggests chook species that could be singing. When you can’t report birds for FeederWatch that you just solely hear however don’t see, Sound ID can be utilized to assist ID birds that contributors are seeing and should have hassle figuring out. Study extra in regards to the Merlin Chicken ID app right here.
Jeff shared:
I at all times sit up for beginning FeederWatch. I’ve been doing this for about 20 years. It’s simply a part of my yearly birding story. I take pleasure in looking ahead to the arrival of northern/mountain species searching for refuge at milder elevations and latitudes. It’s at all times attention-grabbing evaluating this 12 months’s species to earlier years. FeederWatch helps me turn into extra engaged in observing the pure world, together with [helping me notice] the modifications to the seasons from fall to spring and the choruses of birds that dance on the stage of the pure world.
Like Jeff, we’re additionally interested by seeing how FeederWatch sightings change from one 12 months to the subsequent! The Undertaking FeederWatch group just lately launched a Website Checklist function, out there on the app and web site. Utilizing the function, you may see which birds species you will have reported, the proportion of your counts for that website that included every species, the proportion of counts for the present season from FeederWatchers close by that included every species, and some species you haven’t reported but within the present season. Study extra in regards to the Website Checklist function right here.
Due to everybody who participated and shared their tales for this immediate – we want we might share all your submissions! E-mail feederwatch@cornell.edu with questions, and browse the tales from previous winners on our weblog. Keep tuned for once we announce the subsequent winners of our subsequent knowledge entry contest on January 14th, 2025.
All in favour of turning into a FeederWatcher? Be part of the enjoyable now!
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