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clearly I need to be reprogrammed ;)
The Bare-Naked Big Walk
I can think of several essential ingredients for any successful birding “Big Day”—an effort to identify as many bird species as possible during a single midnight-to-midnight period. Here goes: 1. A good team. 2. A good route. 3. A good plan. And I can think of two other Big Day essentials we t...
20+ southbound Pomarine Jaegers reported this AM by Kyle Horton birding the Delaware River from Delaware City, DE., then 20+ Poms reported by Tom Reed Cook's Beach (on the NJ side of the Delaware Bay, just north of Cape May, NJ) at 2:46pm ET. Also Cory's Shearwaters from from the same location as well as Sunset Beach, Cape May, NJ. Thus far it sounds like Pomarine Jaegers and Leach's Storm Petrels are the dominant pelagics being reported from the Mid-Atlantic region. Michael O'Brien did speculate that Cape May might take a few days to see birds make their way down, so the lack of reports may not be for lack of coverage (people have been birding there since first light) and may indeed reflect a lack of birds moving through as of yet. Whether they'll trickle through over the next 24 hours or simply make their way to the ocean from farther north remains to be seen. Thanks for pulling this together John!
#ABArare - Hurricane Sandy report 1 - Northern Lapwing, Ross's Gull, and more
Now that Hurricane Sandy has made landfall and moved inland, birders are heading out today to see what the storm brought. Interestingly, the best birds (so far) are arguably only indirectly related to the hurricane. Three (or possibly two) Northern Lapwings (Code 4) have been found in Massa...
I just ordered it today (B&H has it on sale right now)... so I'll report back in a week with some results. From what I've read there were some issues with the 4s (which I have) but those are supposedly worked out. More to come.
Mic up that iPhone: Follow Up
I think I still have a ways to go before I'd call myself an authority on using an iPhone (or similar device) to produce bird recordings, but I've learned a lot since my initial post on this topic about a month ago. Let me comment on three aspects of acquiring bird sounds on an iPhone. 1) Gettin...
Oops! looks like some of the links got gummed up with extra characters. Here are the good ones:
http://www.fostexinternational.com/docs/products/AR-4i.shtml#1
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150822153825586
http://soundcloud.com/woodcreeper/sets/recorded-with-my-iphone-4s
Mic up that iPhone: Follow Up
I think I still have a ways to go before I'd call myself an authority on using an iPhone (or similar device) to produce bird recordings, but I've learned a lot since my initial post on this topic about a month ago. Let me comment on three aspects of acquiring bird sounds on an iPhone. 1) Gettin...
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