Connor Cochrane Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 32 minutes ago, Birding Boy said: I've got a kinda exciting possible plan for this next spring. School is over with the first week of May, which leaves a good chunk of the month open for birding. I'm thinking of camping out at Tawas Pt. State Park, which is one of the best places to observe passerine migration in Michigan, but I'll have to do some research into how that works. If it doesn't, then there's some family property a half hour's drive away I could use. I can't imagine listening to NFC's, and the vismig has got to be insane, and the rarity potential is pretty good. Probably a little early to be looking into next migration, but hey, something I've been wanting to do for a good while. You get out of school the first week of may? How early do you start? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 23 minutes ago, Connor Cochrane said: You get out of school the first week of may? How early do you start? We started the first week of September, how about yourself? I can imagine my homeschool program is quite different from yours. Probably a lot fewer holidays haha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 2 hours ago, Birding Boy said: We started the first week of September, how about yourself? I can imagine my homeschool program is quite different from yours. Probably a lot fewer holidays haha. We started in late August and we end in early June. I go to a Catholic school so we get less holidays in general. 4 weeks off (1 Thanksgiving, 2 Christmas, 1 Easter) and virtually no 3 day weekends. The public schools in the area get a lot more break time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 On 10/1/2021 at 12:51 AM, Connor Cochrane said: We started in late August and we end in early June. I go to a Catholic school so we get less holidays in general. 4 weeks off (1 Thanksgiving, 2 Christmas, 1 Easter) and virtually no 3 day weekends. The public schools in the area get a lot more break time. Whoah ok, I hadn’t realized that most private and public schools go that long. My classes probably cram a lot more stuff over the shorter time period. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 Got what I believe to be my first White-crowned Sparrow NFC last night mixed in with a ton of other calls, @Connor Cochrane I know you get a ton of experience with these guys over there, so let me know what you think when you have time. https://ebird.org/checklist/S95710079 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdNrd Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Birding Boy said: Got what I believe to be my first White-crowned Sparrow NFC last night mixed in with a ton of other calls, @Connor Cochrane I know you get a ton of experience with these guys over there, so let me know what you think when you have time. https://ebird.org/checklist/S95710079 Sounds like one to me. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 29 minutes ago, BirdNrd said: Sounds like one to me. Awesome, thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) 31 minutes ago, BirdNrd said: Edited October 7, 2021 by Birding Boy Double post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 3rd unidentified call looks like WTSP 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/2/2021 at 1:29 PM, Birding Boy said: Whoah ok, I hadn’t realized that most private and public schools go that long. My classes probably cram a lot more stuff over the shorter time period. Yeah, same here. We usually end pretty early, but this year I think we end a bit later, early June I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 (edited) On 9/30/2021 at 6:53 PM, Connor Cochrane said: You get out of school the first week of may? How early do you start? I know, right? Edited October 9, 2021 by IKLland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kansabirdguy Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 @Seanbirds eBird says Eastern Meadowlarks and Common Grackles are near threatened??? there seems to be a ton of both of those in the summer here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 7 hours ago, kansabirdguy said: @Seanbirds eBird says Eastern Meadowlarks and Common Grackles are near threatened??? there seems to be a ton of both of those in the summer here. I don’t see to many Eastern Meadowlarks where I am but yeah Common Grackles are everywhere. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kansabirdguy Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Seanbirds said: I don’t see to many Eastern Meadowlarks where I am but yeah Common Grackles are everywhere. they line the fence lines- maybe ten or so- here in the spring. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 You can click on ‘near threatened’ (also Least concern, endangered, etc) and it tells you the reason why. Takes a lot more than perceived local levels to downgrade/upgrade the conservation status of the species. Need to look at population trends, habitat quality/availability, range, etc. of the whole population. Which is why barn owls are considered locally endangered in Canada (very small range), even though globally they’re considered least concern (found on every continent, so it would be very hard for the whole population to crash). As for the grackles, they are still relatively numerous, but the overall population trend has been significantly negative over the last how many years suggesting that if that trend continues they eventually could be upgraded to vulnerable then all the way down the line to extinct. Seems unlikely, but look at the passenger pigeon that once numbered in the billions…. Though of course there’s a big difference between the factors currently effecting grackles and the factors that effected the pigeons, both human wise and life history wise. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdNrd Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Tomorrow morning I’m going to chase an adult male Williamson’s Sapsucker! Hopefully it sticks around until then. Wish me luck! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 12 hours ago, BirdNrd said: Tomorrow morning I’m going to chase an adult male Williamson’s Sapsucker! Hopefully it sticks around until then. Wish me luck! I'm wishing you luck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdNrd Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 57 minutes ago, Kevin said: I'm wishing you luck. 14 hours ago, BirdNrd said: Tomorrow morning I’m going to chase an adult male Williamson’s Sapsucker! Hopefully it sticks around until then. Wish me luck! Got it! Beautiful adult male! Will post photos later. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 12 minutes ago, BirdNrd said: Got it! Beautiful adult male! Will post photos later. Great! ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdNrd Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 3 hours ago, Kevin said: Great! ? Here's one of my photos 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 14 minutes ago, BirdNrd said: Here's one of my photos Congrats! Best sapsucker. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 20 hours ago, Birding Boy said: Congrats! Best sapsucker. Indeed! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kansabirdguy Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 those dark buteos still give me a ton of trouble! whatever they are, I saw a lot of them in South-eastern KS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 The benefit of being homeschooled means I can go on potential wild goose chases and make up for it later. https://ebird.org/checklist/S96373820 Wish me luck that there’s something there! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, Birding Boy said: The benefit of being homeschooled means I can go on potential wild goose chases and make up for it later. https://ebird.org/checklist/S96373820 Wish me luck that there’s something there! Seriously, can you home-schooled types get credit for birding? Bio or something? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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