[va-richmond-general] 4/17, 42nd Street and Wetlands
- From: "Barnett, Lewis" <lbarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Richmond Audubon Society mailing list <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:03:56 -0400
I did a quick run through the 42nd Street and Wetlands sections of James River
Park early this morning. Taken as a whole, I'd say that the Wetlands is a bit
"birdier" right now. I did find Yellow-throated Warbler, Black-and-White
Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, and both Red-Eyed and White-eyed Vireos at 42nd
Street. Many of those were heard and not seen. Of course, there are plenty of
Yellow-rumped Warblers still around, and they're starting to look quite dapper.
I had all of the above at the Wetlands (Landria Drive) except Black-and-White,
and in addition, found Northern Parula, Palm Warbler (western variety), a good
number of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers (which I didn't notice at 42nd, though surely
they were there), and my First-of-Year Green Heron at the pond.
In the interests of helping folks track what's going on at your favorite spots
during migration, I've attached a message from one of the eBird mailing lists
which has a link to a really useful Google Gadget (you can add this to your
iGoogle page, if you use that) which lets you specify a location by latitude
and longitude (try googling "google maps latitude longitude" to find a tool
that will help you find the lat/long of your location if you don't already have
a favorite tool to do that). You also get to specify a radius in kilometers
around that spot and how many days you want to look back, and the gadget will
present a list of all of the birds that have been sighted and added to eBird in
that circle over your specified time frame. To keep the displayed list from
getting too long, you also get to add up to 100 common species in the setting
that you want the gadget to ignore. It isn't perfect, but I find this just
fantastic - of course, it's helpfulness depends on local birders using eBird to
report what they've seen, but with this functionality, I think there's a lot
more motivation to actually do that. I hope you'll check it out. If you have
trouble with the links in the message, you can go here:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory
and then search for gadgets containing "ebird" in their name.
Good birding,
Lewis
lbarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:lbarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Begin forwarded message:
From: wagtail <zacharydebruine@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:zacharydebruine@xxxxxxxxx>>
Date: April 16, 2011 2:51:49 PM EDT
To: eBird TechTalk
<ebirdtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ebirdtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: Re: Google Gadgets using eBird APIs
Reply-To:
"ebirdtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ebirdtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
<ebirdtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ebirdtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
I apologize. The links weren't working very well. Here are the
correct links (I hope):
Add Recent Sightings gadget to your iGoogle page:
http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/101708404408406792358/ebird-nearby-observations-directorytry.xml
Add Recent Sightings gadget to your webpage:
http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhosting.gmodules.com%2Fig%2Fgadgets%2Ffile%2F101708404408406792358%2Febird-nearby-observations-directorytry.xml
Add Needs gadget to your iGoogle page:
http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/101708404408406792358/eBird-needs-good.xml
Add Needs gadget to your webpage:
http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhosting.gmodules.com%2Fig%2Fgadgets%2Ffile%2F101708404408406792358%2FeBird-needs-good.xml
Add Wants gadget to your iGoogle page:
http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/101708404408406792358/eBird-wants-good.xml
Add Wants gadget to your webpage:
http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhosting.gmodules.com%2Fig%2Fgadgets%2Ffile%2F101708404408406792358%2FeBird-wants-good.xml
On Apr 16, 2:15 pm, wagtail <zacharydebru...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
eBirders,
I have introduced several eBird "Recent Sightings" gadgets in a
previous post under "How to list species by location and time" topic.
As I recognize these gadgets may be very useful to many eBirders, I
have opened this topic to encourage discussion of possible
improvements I could make to these gadgets.
I give eBird the credit for these gadgets. I used the code from their
more primitive Google Gadgets to develop mine. So give eBird's very
hard working team the credit!
There are three gadgets I have just released:
Recent Nearby Observations: All observations submitted within a given
radius of a certain location over a set time frame. For some reason
this gadget is not appearing in the Google Directory. I will look
into this.
Add to your
webpage:http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator%3...
Add to your
iGoogle:http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.google.com/ig/adde%3Fmodu...
Recent Nearby Needs: Similar to Recent Nearby Observations only you
can enter up to 150 common species that you do not want to appear on
the gadget.
Add to your
webpage:http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.google.com/ig/adde%3Fmodu...
Add to your
iGoogle:http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.google.com/ig/adde%3Fmodu...
Recent Nearby Wants: This is different than the Needs gadget, because
you specify up to 150 species that you only want to appear on your
gadget (when reported). This gadget is easier to use than the Needs
gadget if you know what needs you are looking for in your region. I
realize that both the Needs and Wants gadgets preview says that the
"Request URL is too large" when trying to add them to the webpage. I
believe that this is simply because 150 "blanks" (UserPrefs, more
specifically) for species is too much for Google's preview engine to
process, but it should still work fine on your webpage.
This topic is for comments and suggestions, so go ahead and offer your
advice! Tell me how I can improve these gadgets, and any additional
functionalities you would like to see.
-Zachary DeBruine
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