At 12:01 AM 2/1/2006, you wrote: >Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:39:07 -0500 >From: Barbara Powers <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: eBird Submission Milestone > >A question-I submit data to the Prject Feeder Watch sponsored by Cornell. >Should I also submit this data to ebird or do they submit it? Thanks for the >input. >Barbara Powers >Manchester Center Barbara- Great question and one I field regularly. I too submit data to feederwatch. Although technically the two databases could easily work together in a large analysis, they do collect data in a different manner. Feederwatch data is the high count of each species at your feeder over a two day period. While eBird collects data at the most on a day long count. It does not allow for multiple day count, but rather would take the data as two separate checklists on two different days. I enter my feeder data in both databases and I would recommend that others do too. It only takes me a couple of minutes and that way we have all the Vermont data we can get in one database. Thanks for eBirding Barbara. Kent McFarland VINS