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Recent content by BrianInStockholm

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    eBird Polygon Tool

    David, Belated thanks for your amazing efforts!! I'm amazed more eBirders (or birders in general) don't know about this. It's incredibly useful. There's no way to get more frequent "snapshots" of the eBird database? (I may be revealing my ignorance of how all this works....) Again, thanks. I...
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    USA, Eastern Massachusetts: unusual owl (I think!) call

    Update: experts are divided between Saw-Whet and... red fox!
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    USA, Eastern Massachusetts: unusual owl (I think!) call

    Yup! I have to leave town for the evening, unfortunately.... But if someone reading this is per chance going to be in Orleans, Massachusetts around 20:00, let me know, and I'll give directions. Otherwise, I plan to wake around 04:15 or so as I did this morning (no luck, by the way re-hearing the...
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    USA, Eastern Massachusetts: unusual owl (I think!) call

    Now some of my knowledgeable (but not fully expert) friends are thinking it could be a Great-Horned with a very high-pitched voice!
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    USA, Eastern Massachusetts: unusual owl (I think!) call

    Heard again last night. Better recording: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2-wXlrp2Fz2YmFoOUhWcWdjUTQ
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    USA, Eastern Massachusetts: unusual owl (I think!) call

    Thanks for the responses! I'm leaning towards Boreal myself. Here's the closest I've found for Northern Saw-whet at Xeno-Canto: http://www.xeno-canto.org/43398 But it's still not quite right -- right pitch and timbre, but totally wrong pattern. And here are two from X-C for Boreal...
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    USA, Eastern Massachusetts: unusual owl (I think!) call

    I don't recognize this: a repeating pattern of 3 or sometimes 4, but also -- if the bird's been silent for a while -- sometimes 1, high-ish-pitched hoots, ascending if three, then usually, if four, with the last note lower. Went through all the owl sounds at allaboutbirds.org and it's none of...
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    eBird Polygon Tool

    eBird vs. the Swedish Artportalen Pardon late reply. Found this thread via a search. To the eBird people, and to anyone interested in using shapes on maps to define viewing locations, and, indeed, to anyone interested in numerous amazing features, I encourage you to look at...
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    Stockholmare/Stockholmers: Nattsångare nu!

    Hej, At Stockholms Ornitologiska Förening (StOF) (Ornithological Assoc. of Stockholm) there is a list of other local Stockholm area groups, each with a planned excursion either tonight or tomorrow night to look/listen for nattsångare ("nightsingers)...
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    Hello From Boston!

    Thanks for the additional welcomes! (I see I have to change my settings to make sure I'm notified of replies.) Looking forward to birding in Stockholm!
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    Birding sites near to Arlanda!

    Hej Marie! I'm from the U.S. (though I live most of the year in Aspudden). I've just gotten into birding (while in the U.S. -- actually I started before I left Sweden, but didn't get very far). This time of year, if I wanted to go birding near Stockholm, do you think Lappkärret would be the best...
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    Short-term migration forecasts: Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Massachusetts

    Hi everyone. I'm new here, and I apologize if this is a stupid, inappropriate, or mal-placed question, but here we go. I'm getting reacquainted with North American birds after years in Europe, want to glom onto one of the Brookline Bird Club's early morning Mount Auburn Cemetery (MAC) walks...
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    Intro - From Stockholm, though in Eastern Massachusetts for a bit longer

    Thanks! Thanks for the warm welcomes! What an amazing resource this site is. Exactly what I've been looking for. I have to get some work done, but you'll see me around a lot in the coming weeks. Brian
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    Hello From Boston!

    Hi bejiphotography! I just joined myself. I'm on the Cape but am planning to go on one of the Brookline Bird Club's Mt. Auburn walks this week -- either Wedn. or Friday. I'm trying to pick the best of those two dates based on the info at Birdcast, and weather forecasts, but I'm feeling...
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    Intro - From Stockholm, though in Eastern Massachusetts for a bit longer

    "Why not introduce yourself in the Say Hello forum?" Why not indeed! I live in Stockholm, but have been in Eastern Massachusetts for a couple months now, and will be here another two or so weeks. I started birding in Sweden recently (having started briefly as a child in the 1970s in...
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