Thanks Spencer. You even caught me off by how fast you were to fix that filter! Kent ____________________________ Kent McFarland Vermont Center for Ecostudies PO Box 420 | Norwich, Vermont 05055 802.649.1431 x2 [image: VCE Logo] <http://www.vtecostudies.org/> Visit Our Pages: [image: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vermont-Center-for-Ecostudies/56930912454> [image: YouTube] <http://www.youtube.com/user/VCE14> [image: Blogger]<http://vtecostudies.blogspot.com/> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Spencer Hardy <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Hi Mike and Kent (and anyone else who is interested), > > When you submitted your checklist earlier today, the filter was set to > flag any Indigo Bunting after September 25th. This was originally > automatically set by ebird based on observer submissions for the area. Yet, > for this species in particular, there have been many reports in late > September this year (and the past few years)...thus when I saw Mike's > report of several today, I moved the filters into October. > > Trust me, I am not always nearly this fast! > > Spencer Hardy > > > > On Sep 30, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Kent McFarland wrote: > > > Mike, > > Thanks for entering your data into Vermont eBird. We have the filter for > that county set to 10 until second week of October for indigo bunting. So, > four INBU should not have been auto-flagged on today's date. I will look > into that. > > > > Here's the chart for the Piedmont if anyone is interested for bunting. > You can see that by mid October, they are mostly gone. > > > http://ebird.org/ebird/vt/GuideMe?src=changeDate&speciesCodes=indbun&getLocations=counties&counties=US-VT-025%2CUS-VT-027&parentState=US-VT&reportType=species&monthRadio=on&bMonth=08&eMonth=11&bYear=1900&eYear=2013&continue.x=69&continue.y=8&continue=Continue > > Best, > > Kent > > > > ____________________________ > > Kent McFarland > > Vermont Center for Ecostudies > > PO Box 420 | Norwich, Vermont 05055 > > 802.649.1431 x2 > > > > Visit Our Pages: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Mike Resch <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Spent much of the day birding in Brattleboro and Vernon, VT birding at > the Brattleboro treatment plant, the east side of Brattleboro retreat, the > fields by the nuke plant substation, the stump dump on Stebbins Road, and > Fort Dummer State Park. Best bird was a Dickcissel at the water tratment > plant. Also had 5 warbler species - 1 Nashville and 1 Tennessee along with > numerous Palms, Yellow-rumps and Yellowthroats; and 1 Blue-headed Vireo. > Eight species of sparrows including good numbers of Lincoln's Sparrows was > nice. I just put all the sightings in e-bird - surprisingly e-bird thinks > the 4 Indigo Buntings I had are rare. > > > > > > Mike Resch > > www.statebirding.blogspot.com > > Pepperell, MA > > >