Comments on: What I Learned about My Backyard from Project FeederWatch

By: I and the bird #98 | A birding blog by Gunnar Engblom

I and the bird #98 | A birding blog by Gunnar Engblom — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:59:01 +0000

[...] leucocephala) Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Inca Dove (Columbina [...]

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:55:47 +0000

My junior ornithologist daughter would envy you so much, having such a beautiful variety of birds.

By: James

James — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:10:27 +0000

Heather, that nail on the feeder if for fruit. I sometimes stick apple cores on it. I’ll have to look for a notify of follow-up plugin. That sounds like a good feature to have.

Crafty Green Poet, Thanks. I enjoy learning about the birds in other corners of the world too. Sometimes the similarities are as surprising as the differences.

Mikael, I have been using ebird. I even entered all my pfw data into ebird so I’d have access to those graphs.

Jessica, Thanks. Good to hear from you again.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:28:56 +0000

Cool idea; nice results.

By: Mikael Behrens

Mikael Behrens — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:59:36 +0000

Thanks for your nice summary! I enjoyed your different lists and I love the picture with both doves on the feeder. If you’re interested, you can enter data all year long using eBird.org. Stationary eBird counts are similar to the feeder watch protocol.

Mikael

By: Crafty Green Poet

Crafty Green Poet — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:12:02 +0000

what an interesting post! It’s interesting that some things are the same there as here in the UK – our wrens always sing really loudly too and our goldfinches love nyger seeds too though they seem totally different than your goldfinches. Lovely photos you’re sharing too, especially the hawk…

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:34:54 +0000

That’s a great summary of your first Feederwatch experience James. I hope I’ll have the time tonight to get mine together and posted. (But an hour of this evening will be eaten by LOST, of course!) It gets even better the more years you do it, once you can start comparing previous years of data and making trend observations. Glad you got those Goldfinches to come in (kudos to your sister)! By the way, I notice on your platform feeder that there’s a big nail sticking up in the middle of it. Is that structural, or do you use that to attach fruit pieces to in the summer? Or maybe it’s meant as a (useless) warning for the squirrels and opossums?

P.S. Have you considered including the “notify me of follow-up comments” option to your comment submission form? It would be handy, I think. Sometimes I have a hard time remembering which posts I leave comments on and where I should be looking for possible follow-up.