On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM Ben Kolstad via groups.io <ben=
<kolstad.com...> wrote:
> I'm in Atascadero (south of town, adjacent to the Santa Margarita Ranch),
> and the Lark Sparrows have been dripping off the trees here for the past
> couple weeks (several flocks of more than two dozen birds each).
>
> This morning as I was walking my neighborhood, Merlin picked up
> White-throated Sparrow. I couldn't find it either visually or with my own
> ears (in the field or when playing the Merlin recording back), so I'm
> clearly not counting it. But it did bring up the question of when they can
> be expected to return. The one August record near me that I'm aware of was
> the 2024 one in KJZ's yard, and that one doesn't count since it never left
> for the summer.
>
> Does anyone know a more effective way of looking this up in eBird than to
> use the bar charts for the whole county?
> You can't drill down into the individual observations that way.
> I've also tried their abundance animations, and maybe that's as good as I
> can get? (
> https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends/species/whcspa/abundance-map?season=postbreeding_migration > )
>
> Ben Kolstad
> Atascadero
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