[texbirds] Re: 2013 Local Patch Challenge
- From: antshrike1@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 19:23:34 -0500 (EST)
I love the concept and am shooting for 275 for 2013 in the area around my house
in Weslaco. I already have Long-tailed Duck, Surf Scoter and Greater Scaup!
But I see a problem with eBird. If your patch crosses a county line then you
need to be careful, but you can still do it. Enter your birds at the name of
the location where you see them as you usually would. They will then be
entered for the appropriate county. Then as David mentioned, you need to
define your patch on eBird. Your patch can contain many locations from more
than one county. For example, suppose I live in Corpus Christi. My circle
would include parts of both Nueces and San Patricio Counties. Birds see at
Blucher Park should be entered for that park and consequently Nueces County.
But birds seen across the bridge in Portland need to be entered at the specific
site so they will be in San Patricio County. When you define your patch you
can enter all the location names you regularly use. My patch will include
Frontera, Estero, VNC, Donna Lake, Donna Landfill, my yard and more locations I
will discover. I will still enter my birds at Frontera just the same. But now
they will also be in my patch totals. Just don't enter a location on eBird
called My Patch and just dump all the birds in there. You will be messing up
eBird data and making your local eBird editor unhappy.
I would really like to move my circle three miles SW so it would include Santa
Ana, but that would be cheating so I'll just take it as it is.
Dan Jones, Weslaco
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