Birding Boy Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Just a neighborhood walk, but I did unexpectedly find a Northern Flicker. Pleasantly surprised, as they can be a pain to find in winter here. https://ebird.org/checklist/S99756086 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpa Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Good start to the year. County bird (Northern Harrier) and a new personal best for species https://ebird.org/checklist/S99857206 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Six birds in the parking lot, a dozen more in one 50-yard stretch, and a RSHA repeatedly pouncing into an open drainage draw. https://ebird.org/checklist/S99824701 Combined with three other lists for a 33-species day. I didn't get LESC or BUFF last year, so it was nice to get them today. Nothing radical, but a good start to the year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 (edited) 1 hour ago, Charlie Spencer said: and a RSHA repeatedly pouncing into an open drainage draw. I swear to you, I had NO CLUE the stationary RSHA was there until I looked at the photos just now. Edited January 1 by Charlie Spencer 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan B Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 126 species today! Lots of hard ones for the county as well. https://ebird.org/tripreport/27529 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Lifer common goldeneye! https://ebird.org/checklist/S99884985 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 13 hours ago, IKLland said: Lifer common goldeneye! https://ebird.org/checklist/S99884985 Wait, Whaaa??? You haven’t seen a Goldeneye before?!?! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 minute ago, Seanbirds said: Wait, Whaaa??? You haven’t seen a Goldeneye before?!?! No. For some reason they’re very uncommon, but not rare here. This is the only hotspot we’re you can regularly get them in the winter, and anything more than one of them is considered a high count. Somehow I had THREE of them ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 2 minutes ago, Seanbirds said: Wait, Whaaa??? You haven’t seen a Goldeneye before?!?! I thought California boi had seen everything by now. 😉 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 From yesterday, 4 flagged seasonal rarities and ended new years with 47 sp. Not bad considering I only birded in the afternoon. https://ebird.org/checklist/S99866776 https://ebird.org/checklist/S99865566 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Only 3, but https://ebird.org/checklist/S100300128 Also, only a week into 2022 and some good northern and Atlantic birds! https://ebird.org/lifelist?time=year&r=world 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 https://ebird.org/checklist/S100306765 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 https://ebird.org/checklist/S100449569 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan B Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Absolutely insane day at my patch!!!!! More and more rarities just kept coming, and they weren't the regular type of rarities either! Brought my county list to 166 for the year! A great start to my big year! https://ebird.org/checklist/S100528567 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 On 1/1/2022 at 5:19 PM, Charlie Spencer said: I swear to you, I had NO CLUE the stationary RSHA was there until I looked at the photos just now. It is blending in pretty good. I think everyone has had this happen a time or two. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 On 1/7/2022 at 10:51 PM, IKLland said: https://ebird.org/checklist/S100306765 I miss Lark Sparrows! Saw them all the time in Colorado in the summer. Here in Florida (1) the first winter we were here. It is my favorite sparrow. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 12 hours ago, Aidan B said: Absolutely insane day at my patch!!!!! More and more rarities just kept coming, and they weren't the regular type of rarities either! Brought my county list to 166 for the year! A great start to my big year! https://ebird.org/checklist/S100528567 Thats great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) Anyone know an easy way to find your checklist with the most species? The list of your checklists doesn't show counts. My eternal gratitude. Well, ten, maybe fifteen minutes of gratitude. Edited January 11 by Charlie Spencer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Charlie Spencer said: Anyone know an easy way to find your checklist with the most species? The list of your checklists doesn't show counts. My eternal gratitude. Well, ten, maybe fifteen minutes of gratitude. I’ve wanted that too, I can’t figure it out. Edited January 11 by IKLland 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpa Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 1 hour ago, Charlie Spencer said: Anyone know an easy way to find your checklist with the most species? The list of your checklists doesn't show counts. My eternal gratitude. Well, ten, maybe fifteen minutes of gratitude. I've done this before, but depending on your level of Excel-fu it's likely not "easy". Request an export of all your eBird data at https://ebird.org/downloadMyData . You'll get an email with a link to download a CSV file. It contains all your eBird observations, one row per-species (really taxa), per-checklist. Import that file into Excel (or Google Sheets) and create a pivot table over the data. Use the "Submission ID" (e.g. checklist) field as the Rows to group by. Use the "Common Name" field as the Values and change the summarize dropdown to COUNTUNIQUE. You can then change the Rows to sort descending based on the counts. The URL for a specific checklist is then https://ebird.org/checklist/S######## where you replace the S######## with value in the "Submission ID" column. Here's a couple of screenshots of what this looks like in Google Sheets I've thought about making a small webpage that would automatically do this. Upload your eBird export and it could show this and other interesting tidbits that aren't easily exposed on the myebird page. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 5 minutes ago, neilpa said: I've thought about making a small webpage that would automatically do this. Upload your eBird export and it could show this and other interesting tidbits that aren't easily exposed on the myebird page. There is one that exists. Let me see if I can find it. It’s pretty cool how it presents your data. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 @neilpa Here’s the website: https://birdstat.com/. It’s really interesting and I recommend checking it out. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) 25 minutes ago, neilpa said: create a pivot table Yeah, I was with you right up to that point. I'm decent with Excel, enough to have built the table to upload my Historical sightings, but pivot tables have always thrown me for a loop. I'll do an import and see if I can crunch the data without one. Or maybe this will give me an excuse to take another look at it. So basically there's no way to do it inside eBird itself. Edited January 11 by Charlie Spencer 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpa Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 3 minutes ago, Connor Cochrane said: @neilpa Here’s the website: https://birdstat.com/. It’s really interesting and I recommend checking it out. Thanks! That's essentially what I had in mind. One less thing for my random list of ideas to build. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpa Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 5 minutes ago, neilpa said: Thanks! That's essentially what I had in mind. One less thing for my random list of ideas to build. I tried out birdstat, definitely a cool tool. Although, it doesn't appear to include a summary of checklists by species, the one thing that kicked off this topic. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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