Welcome to new TASLers Linda Ferraresso, Ted Raymond, Lauretta Wood.
This count, for the first time, was reported almost entirely on eBird compatible data sheets. By and large that went well. There are only a few additional bits of data requested by eBird that we have not been asking for already. TASL data is ever closer to being all on eBird. For better or worser, we're headed that way!
In accordance with preferred eBird protocol, TASLers were encouraged to count and report all birds. Some did, but the totals at the bottom of the data sheet (passerines etc) certainly do not represent all the birds in and around the Harbor.
Here are selected comments from participants:
From Maury Hall, compiler:
Feb totals look like surprisingly high numbers.
From Dave Lange, Squantum-Long Island:
We have not gone out to the tip [of Long Island] in some time. It has been harder to
walk out there as the trail is little used and overgrown. Also new
signs regarding access this year; probably because of the new daycamp area.
I don't think it impacts the count much. We may miss a few eiders (etc) close to the tip but things further out we can see either from the power plant or dock. The Deer Island group should have a good view of the tip.
From Andrew Joslin, Hough's Neck:
Highlights were Glaucous Gull at the mouth of Blacks Creek; Kingfisher in Blacks Creek estuary; Ruddy Turnstones: 8 at Wollaston Beach Sanderlings, 13 at Wollaston Beach (with the Sanderlings).
Comments compiled by
Soheil Zendeh
last updated: 2008.09.17
url: http://www.gis.net/~szendeh/tasl.feb.08.notes.htm