NABA 4JC

[Rick Mikula]

Michael Gochfeld wrote:
> 
> The NABA 4th of July counts are patterned for better or worse on the
> Audubons Society Christmas bird counts, hence the 15 mile diameter
> circles. ......  
>There are also, breeding bird census routes which were 
>scientifically designed to  sample bird populations in a repeatable fashion,
> but these too have their limitations. 

	Having studied Ornithology at Cornell I was well involved with
these counts and census. I remember standing on at the stern of a boat
out over the Hudson Canyon as the "old timers" in the pre-dawn hours would
identify pelagic birds merely by the sounds of their wing beats. They could
have been 100% wrong, who knew? But boy it was fun.


On other occassions I drew many odd stares from fishermen as they watched 
me extend my fishing pole with a mirror fixed to the end to check on my 
nests. However this thread seems to be slipping towards a Releasers vs naba
and that was not the original intent of my posting. Thats a whole different 
kettle of yellow throated warblers.

Rick Mikula