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    I joined another citizen science project.

    I have participated in Project FeederWatch since the winter of 2007-2008. All it involves is putting up a bird feeder, then monitoring bird activity and the weather for a two day period once a week from November to April. I report this information and it's cool to see the seasonal and yearly data variations. For example I'd expect to see lots of chickadees yet for the past two winters I've seen very few. It's puzzling.

    Faye had a magazine from the farmer she does work for describing how Canadians can participate in CoCoRaHS, the Collaborative Community Rain, Hail, and Snow Project. You put up a rain gauge and report every day how much (if any) rain fell. The Project has extended to reporting snowfall, snow depth, snow/water equivalent, hail, and significant weather. The data are out there for anyone to review, analyze, and use for a myriad of purposes. I've informally collected precipitation data for years and it's very cool to formalize and share information I already collect. I started reporting today. No data to report but that's important, too.

    It's also very cool to report the data that I collect anyway for the common good.
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    The bird monitoring sounds interesting. We still have wrens coming in.

    The weather monitoring should be just as much fun. Do you have a chart type thing to fill in?

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    I put out bird feed and a quail block so I can sit on my couch in the morning and shoot pics of them with my camera. Lol
    sounds interesting to record and report data on them.

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    Very cool. Innovative approach to data collection. Makes it much cheaper to amass data collection. Thanks for taking the time to do this. As someone who does public policy research at a university, these types of efforts are much appreciated by those of us crunching the numbers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by POPTOP View Post
    The bird monitoring sounds interesting. We still have wrens coming in.

    The weather monitoring should be just as much fun. Do you have a chart type thing to fill in?
    I enter the data into a web page and it's posted in near real time. As for the data I've collected on my own - I write them on a calendar and periodically transfer them into a spreadsheet. These data go back to January 2010. I can compare them to official Environment Canada data collected from 1981 to 2000. For November the data are all over the place as you might expect in a transitional weather month. This month has been much colder than normal, rainfall below normal, and snowfall much above.

    ETA: This morning I stumbled upon two more citizen science projects. One is YardMap, intended to share data and ideas for improving the quality and diversity of backyard habitat for songbirds. For example, unbroken stretches of lawn are barren deserts if you are a berry-eating songbird, or a bird seeking shelter from weather or predators. The other one is FLAP, the Fatal Light Awareness Program. Its intent is to make buildings less hazardous to birds, like making windows less reflective and more opaque from a birds' perspective. Unsire I'll join either but they are interesting to browse.
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