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Cornell’s New FeederWatch Bird Cam (and Help for Mac Users)

March 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Hot off the presses from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
Announcing a new FeederWatch Cam
We have recently launched a new streaming camera from the home of FeederWatch participants David Smith and Shanna Rendon in Grand Junction, Colorado. We are very excited to feature our first-ever participant FeederWatch Cam and are grateful to David and Shanna for [...]

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Tags: News · Project FeederWatch · video

Brooklyn Birds: My first FeederWatch year in review

November 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

My very first season counting birds for Cornell University’s Project FeederWatch was 2002–2003. We lived in a “loft” on North 1st and Kent in the acutely self-aware Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I say “loft” because it was essentially a decrepit shell of space without walls, plus, after moving from the third floor down to the first, a [...]

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Tags: Project FeederWatch · White-throated Sparrow

Where’s the checkbox for deer on Project FeederWatch?

November 18th, 2007 · Comments Off

This is what greeted me from outside my office window early this morning: the female white-tail deer and her two young charges that use our yard and (soon-to-be-our) woods as a thoroughfare. Our friend Ben gave us a persimmon-flavored deer lick as a housewarming gift, which is affixed to a pine at the property perimeter. [...]

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Tags: American Goldfinch · Dark-eyed Junco · Mourning Dove · Project FeederWatch · White-breasted Nuthatch · White-tail Deer · White-throated Sparrow

Project FeederWatch count for Feb. 17-18

February 18th, 2007 · Comments Off

Who visited our feeders this weekend? (Totals are most viewed at one time, not cumulative.)

Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 1
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 (pictured at top right)
Brown-headed Nuthatch 3
Carolina Wren 2
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 3
House Finch 3 (0 with eye disease)

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Tags: Project FeederWatch · White-breasted Nuthatch

Project Feederwatch species trend graph: Brown-headed Nuthatch

January 31st, 2007 · Comments Off

Project FeederWatch has posted updated trend graphs showing increases and decreases of species since the start of FeederWatch. This is one of the things Cornell does with all the data ordinary birdwatchers submit every year. I was particularly interested in the graphs for the Brown-headed Nuthatch. I’ve encountered so many new life-list birds since moving [...]

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Tags: Brown-headed Nuthatch · News · Project FeederWatch