December 10, 2024
| White-crowned Sparrow by Laura Frazier |
For the ninth season in a row, Venture 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 coming into counts into the FeederWatch web site, on the submission affirmation web page, individuals 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 prefer 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 combating psychological well being points and discover watching the birds a soothing distraction. I downloaded the Merlin Hen ID app earlier this 12 months and generally prefer to let Sound ID run to see what birds are round me. By the Merlin Hen ID app, I discovered about FeederWatch and thought it is perhaps enjoyable to show my birdwatching into one thing helpful.
Merlin Hen ID is an app that serves as a pocket ID information, with useful options resembling Step by Step ID, Picture ID, and Sound ID. The Sound ID function Carrie talked about “listens” to chook songs in actual time and suggests chook species which may be singing. Whilst you can’t file birds for FeederWatch that you simply solely hear however don’t see, Sound ID can be utilized to assist ID birds that individuals are seeing and should have hassle figuring out. Be taught extra concerning the Merlin Hen ID app right here.
Jeff shared:
I all the time stay 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 in search of refuge at milder elevations and latitudes. It’s all the time attention-grabbing evaluating this 12 months’s species to earlier years. FeederWatch helps me change 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 following! The Venture FeederWatch group just lately launched a Web site Record function, obtainable on the app and web site. Utilizing the function, you’ll be able to see which birds species you have got 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. Be taught extra concerning the Web site Record function right here.
Because of everybody who participated and shared their tales for this immediate – we want we may share your entire submissions! Electronic mail feederwatch@cornell.edu with questions, and browse the tales from previous winners on our weblog. Keep tuned for once we announce the following winners of our subsequent knowledge entry contest on January 14th, 2025.
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