Date: 4/15/25 8:14 am From: Steven Van Winkle <qrubra17...> Subject: Re: [UCBirders] The Big Sit! 2024 Results are in!
... Sorry to say " I was unable to attend our terrific Big Sit day.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 9:12 AM Steven Van Winkle <qrubra17...> wrote:
> Super stats!
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 8:21 AM Suzi Holt <suzerqholt...> wrote:
>
>> That's awesome!!
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 7:38 AM Keeli Marvel <keeli.marvel...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats to the Utah County Birders (The Skipper Bay Trail Count) for
>>> making the top 5 in participation!
>>>
>>> *From:* The Big Sit! at New Haven Bird Club <
>>> <thebigsitnhbc...>
>>> *Date:* April 14, 2025 at 9:47:47 AM MDT
>>> *To:* <keeli.marvel...>
>>> *Subject:* *The Big Sit! 2024 Results are in!*
>>> *Reply-To:* <thebigsitnhbc...>
>>>
>>>
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>>> <https://mailchi.mp/dd1de32908ff/the-big-sit-2024-results-are-in?e=3f4de67a9a> >>>
>>> *The Big Sit!® Results are in!*
>>>
>>>
>>> In 2024, The Big Sit!® had 93 circles reporting from three countries:
>>> the United States, Guatemala, and Portugal.
>>>
>>> *For 2024 the circles with the most species are:*
>>>
>>> Cape Island--CMPSP--Hawkwatch Platform in New Jersey – 136 species.
>>>
>>> Milford Point-Outer Platform (Big Sit!) in Connecticut – 110 species and
>>> 5 other taxa.
>>>
>>> Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Force Rd. West in Ohio – 96 species and 1
>>> other taxa.
>>>
>>> Finca La Gracia in Guatemala – 92 species and 1 other taxa.
>>>
>>> Hazel Bazemore Park Hawkwatch Platform in Texas – 89 species.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> F*or 2024 the circles with the highest number of participants are:*
>>>
>>> Richmond Audubon count at Tuckahoe Creek Park, Virginia – 40 birders.
>>>
>>> Lenoir Preserve count in New York – 31 birders.
>>>
>>> Hackmatack4Birds count in Illinois – 30 birders.
>>>
>>> Skipper Bay Trail count in Utah – 28 birders.
>>>
>>> Fredericksburg Flighty Flickers’ count at Crow's Nest Research Center,
>>> Virginia – 23 birders.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Altogether, 909 species and other taxa were reported for a total of
>>> 24,911 individual birds. Circles enjoyed doing the Big Sit! for a total of
>>> 823 hours, with 736 birders participating for all or part of the time.
>>> *Highlights from all the eBird comments*
>>> *great weather
>>> *birding with friends
>>> *super casual just watching some from time to time
>>> *lots of fun with raptor migration included
>>> *first (and only) beer cracked around 2:30 PM
>>> *taking photos of our full family gathered together for the first time
>>> in almost a decade
>>> *17 participants stopped by throughout the day to assist with the Big Sit
>>> *more than 100 people visited throughout the day
>>> *it was overall an enjoyable day, filled with cookies, cake, and caffeine
>>> *I had not participated in a Big Sit for years, so I decided to do one
>>> by myself
>>> *did the Big Sit from our dining room window
>>> *squished 8 spotted lantern flies
>>> *arrived with 4 pizzas around 2:30pm and stayed until 6:10pm
>>> *With a vibrant orange twilight to the west, a Great Horned Owl finally
>>> started calling, giving us the last bird of the day. We found the
>>> silhouetted owl perched up on a dead tree as we were packing up the final
>>> items to depart. It was an exhilarating finish to what certainly will not
>>> be the last Big Sit in this wonderful place.
>>>
>>> The Golden Bird Award was announced in December 2024 and posted to our
>>> website. For convenience, the 2024 Golden Bird Award information is also
>>> included at the end of this report.
>>>
>>> See below for the full list of circles and related data. *Thank you for
>>> another great year.*
>>>
>>> *Date* *Total Time (hours)* *Number of birders* *Country/State/
>>> Province* *Team's eBird Location* *Team Name* *eBird Species* *eBird
>>> Other Taxa*
>>> 10/12/24 24.00 4 US-NJ Cape Island--CMPSP--Hawkwatch Platform 136 0
>>> 10/13/24 14.32 9 US-CT Milford Point-Outer Platform (Big Sit!) B. W.
>>> Surf Scopers 110 5
>>> 10/12/24 17.83 8 US-OH Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area--Force Rd. West Bobolink
>>> Area Big Sit 96 1
>>> 10/12/24 12.92 9 GT-ES Finca La Gracia The Lost Tinamou, Saturday 92 1
>>> 10/13/24 10.00 9 US-TX Hazel Bazemore Park Hawkwatch Platform 89 0
>>> 10/12/24 7.25 6 US-NC Battery Buchanan 85 0
>>> 10/12/24 12.33 3 US-VA Kiptopeke State Park CVWO big sit 83 2
>>> 10/13/24 12.35 3 US-TX Richland Creek WMA (N. Unit)(Navarro Co) PPW-W
>>> 019 Pie-filled Grebes 82 3
>>> 10/13/24 14.50 20 US-TX Estero Llano Grande SP WBC (LTC 054) Weslaco
>>> Red-crowns 81 0
>>> 10/12/24 11.67 7 US-CT Smith Neck Road Big Sit! 80 7
>>> 10/12/24 12.67 1 US-PA HRDABRD at Middle Creek (Big Sit) 77 1
>>> 10/12/24 13.47 17 US-TX Lake Waxahachie western cove (Yard) Super
>>> Silly-em! 73 1
>>> 10/13/24 13.00 8 US-MD 2024 Big Sit - PG County Mt. Calvert -
>>> Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission 72 1
>>> 10/13/24 14.63 20 US-IN Lake Lemon--Hengeveld's 72 0
>>> 10/12/24 11.75 2 US-CA Jalama Beach County Park 71 4
>>> 10/12/24 9.83 14 US-SC Big Sit 2013 - 33.5056x-79.0692 - Oct 13, 2013,
>>> 6:02 PM 70 1
>>> 10/12/24 12.58 16 US-OH Mill Creek Wildlife Sanctuary (restricted
>>> access) 70 0
>>> 10/13/24 12.42 16 US-ME Wharton Point, Brunswick Merrymeeting Audubon
>>> Field Trip/Maquoit Bay Birders 69 3
>>> 10/12/24 13.00 3 US-PA John Heinz NWR--impoundment (Philadelphia Co.)
>>> 67 1
>>> 10/12/24 13.43 1 US-MO Swan Lake NWR , Observation Tower 67 0
>>> 10/12/24 10.20 5 US-IL Rollins Savanna Forest Preserve 66 0
>>> 10/13/24 14.00 8 US-OK Eagle Cove Observation Platform, Tishomingo NWR,
>>> Tishomingo, Oklahoma, US (34.195, -96.633) Eagle Cove Observation
>>> Platform at Tishomingo NWR 65 6
>>> 10/12/24 14.00 10 US-OH Home 65 0
>>> 10/12/24 7.75 1 US-MI Independence Lake County Park 65 0
>>> 10/13/24 incidental 40 US-VA Tuckahoe Creek Park Richmond Audubon 65 0
>>> 10/12/24 6.50 2 US-CT White Memorial Foundation--Little Pond 64 0
>>> 10/13/24 8.50 18 US-NC Cowan's Ford Wildlife Refuge Meckbirders 61 0
>>> 10/13/24 8.00 2 US-PA Meadow Grounds Lake 58 1
>>> 10/12/24 13.05 4 US-PA Hillview 57 0
>>> *Date* *Total Time (hours)* *Number of birders* *Country/State/
>>> Province* *Team's eBird Location* *Team Name* *eBird Species* *eBird
>>> Other Taxa*
>>> 10/13/24 12.00 10 US-NJ The Celery Farm 57 0
>>> 10/12/24 9.67 4 US-CT
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-CT+%0D%0A%09%09%09+1+Birdseye+St,+Stratford+US?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-CT+%0D%0A%09%09%09+1+Birdseye+St,+Stratford+US?entry=gmail&source=g> 1
>>> Birdseye St, Stratford US
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-CT+%0D%0A%09%09%09+1+Birdseye+St,+Stratford+US?entry=gmail&source=g>-CT >>> 41.17984, -73.12441
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-CT+%0D%0A%09%09%09+1+Birdseye+St,+Stratford+US?entry=gmail&source=g> Birdseye
>>> Bitterns 56 2
>>> 10/13/24 10.50 3 US-TX
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-TX+%0D%0A%09%09%09+7+Hope+Boulevard,+Galveston,+Texas,+US?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-TX+%0D%0A%09%09%09+7+Hope+Boulevard,+Galveston,+Texas,+US?entry=gmail&source=g> 7
>>> Hope Boulevard, Galveston, Texas, US
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-TX+%0D%0A%09%09%09+7+Hope+Boulevard,+Galveston,+Texas,+US?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> (29.277, -94.855) Moody Flews
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-TX+%0D%0A%09%09%09+7+Hope+Boulevard,+Galveston,+Texas,+US?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> 55 1
>>> 10/12/24 11.42 23 US-VA Crow's Nest Research Center (access by request) Fredericksburg
>>> Flighty Flickers 55 0
>>> 10/12/24 11.75 14 US-NC Greensboro Bog Garden Piedmont Bird Club Pishers
>>> 55 1
>>> 10/12/24 12.20 5 US-CT
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-CT+%0D%0A%09%09%09+1+Birdseye+St,+Stratford+US?entry=gmail&source=g> Jared
>>> Eliot Preserve Connecticut Wobblers 55 0
>>> 10/12/24 11.27 3 US-CT Lighthouse Point Park 55 5
>>> 10/12/24 12.58 1 US-IN Goose Pond FWA--Main Pool East Goose Pond MPE 54
>>> 0
>>> 10/13/24 10.65 2 US-CT Salt Meadow NWR Big Sit!(R) circle,
>>> Menunketesuck River, Westbrook US-CT 41.28166, -72.47414 54 0
>>> 10/12/24 9.75 28 US-UT Skipper Bay Trail 54 1
>>> 10/12/24 12.17 9 US-MD ASCM Big Sit 2024, Audrey Carroll Sanctuary, Mt.
>>> Airy US-MD (39.4189,-77.2050) Audrey Carroll Audubon Sanctuary 53 0
>>> 10/13/24 4.62 10 US-SC Spring Island--Bonny Shore (restricted access)
>>> 53 3
>>> 10/13/24 12.00 12 US-FL Celery Fields Raymond Blvd Celery Fields Forever
>>> 52 0
>>> 10/12/24 10.08 1 US-PA Godshall Property 50 5
>>> 10/13/24 8.00 30 US-IL The Big Sit Hackmatack4Birds Hackmatack4Birds 50
>>> 0
>>> 10/12/24 11.85 5 US-CT Thompson Preserve (Big Sit! NHBC), Litchfield,
>>> Connecticut, US (41.744, -73.214) Litchfield Larks 50 1
>>> 10/13/24 12.00 11 US-MI Big Sit 48045, Harrison Township US-MI
>>> 42.57192, -82.80660 Metro Munchers 49 0
>>> 10/13/24 3.28 19 US-DE The Point Parking lot Sussex Bird Club 49 2
>>> 10/12/24 12.12 11 US-ME Big Sit Riverside Nature Group (RiNG) 48 2
>>> 10/13/24 11.00 10 US-ID Blacks Creek Bird Reserve 48 2
>>> 10/12/24 7.50 3 US-NH Copps Pond Wildlife Management Area, Tuftonboro
>>> 48 0
>>> 10/13/24 6.50 4 US-CT Durham Meadows--Frederick White Farm Birding for
>>> Pleasure 48 0
>>> 10/12/24 18.00 10 US-PA Shaver's Creek Env. Center--Boardwalk Shaver's
>>> Creek Environmental Center 47 0
>>> 10/13/24 5.00 5 US-CT Station 43 47 0
>>> 10/13/24 7.50 10 US-MD Adkins Arboretum 46 1
>>> 10/13/24 3.77 11 US-FL A. D. Barnes Park Phoebes 45 0
>>> 10/12/24 11.25 13 US-MD Baltimore Big Sit - North Point SP Baltimore
>>> Bird Club 44 1
>>> 10/13/24 2.00 2 US-PA Rose Tree Park Birding Club of Delaware County 44
>>> 0
>>> *Date* *Total Time (hours)* *Number of birders* *Country/State/
>>> Province* *Team's eBird Location* *Team Name* *eBird Species* *eBird
>>> Other Taxa*
>>> 10/12/24 6.00 1 US-FL Split Rock Park 44 0
>>> 10/12/24 12.00 2 US-ND Fargo--Heritage Hills 43 0
>>> 10/13/24 9.50 2 US-MN Hawk Ridge Nature Reserve 42 2
>>> 10/12/24 7.42 31 US-NY Lenoir Preserve 42 0
>>> 10/12/24 4.20 3 US-CT Dossin Park Beach, Meriden US-CT 41.52378,
>>> -72.83509 41 0
>>> 10/12/24 8.00 14 US-WI Retzer Nature Center Benjamin F. Goss Bird Club
>>> 41 0
>>> 10/13/24 5.50 6 US-MS Riverview Cemetery 40 0
>>> 10/12/24 3.33 3 US-CT Big Sit 2024: The Gray Jays of Woodbridge! The
>>> Gray Jays of Woodbridge! 38 0
>>> 10/13/24 4.00 2 US-NH Eaton, pond and marsh on Brownfield Rd Eaton and
>>> Birdin 38 1
>>> 10/12/24 12.00 5 US-PA Trexler Nature Preserve, Big Sit point 38 0
>>> 10/12/24 3.50 6 US-FL Peaceful Waters Preserve, Wellington US-FL
>>> 26.63236, -80.23385 37 0
>>> 10/13/24 3.85 11 US-NM Gila River Preserve—Iron Bridge Conservation Area SWNM
>>> Bird Alliance Big Sit Iron Bridge 36 2
>>> 10/13/24 6.50 5 US-MO Loess Bluffs NWR—Eagle Pool Midland Empire
>>> Audubon Society 35 1
>>> \10/12/24 7.20 8 US-MD Morgan Run Natural Environmental Area Carroll
>>> County Bird Club - diurnal 35 0
>>> 10/12/24 5.00 3 US-WV Mountain Valley Lake 35 0
>>> 10/12/24 9.08 7 US-PA Locust Lake SP 33 1
>>> 10/13/24 6.42 5 US-PA Sweet Arrow Lake 33 1
>>> 10/12/24 6.00 2 US-NH Heald Tract--King Brook Reservoir Area, Wilton
>>> 31 4
>>> 10/12/24 4.00 10 US-WI Wehr Nature Center 31 2
>>> 10/13/24 10.00 1 US-NV 1340 Muir Drive 29 0
>>> 10/12/24 12.00 14 US-VT Missisquoi NWR--Stephen Young Marsh Friends of
>>> Missisquoi 29 0
>>> 10/12/24 11.00 10 US-NH Pondicherry Wildlife Refuge--Cherry Pond,
>>> Jefferson 28 0
>>> 10/12/24 1.53 2 US-CT The Big Sit on the Big Chair! (at the JCC),
>>> Woodbridge US-CT 41.35143, -72.99254 Big Sit on the Big Chair! 27 0
>>> 10/12/24 2.50 2 US-VA Home 26 0
>>> 10/12/24 12.00 11 US-NH Miller SP--Pack Monadnock 26 3
>>> 10/13/24 1.00 7 US-VT Birds of Vermont Museum 22 0
>>> 10/13/24 2.52 1 US-SC Table Rock SP Table Rock SP Day 1 22 0
>>> 10/12/24 12.00 1 US-CT 17 Hunters Ridge Rd, Killingworth US
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-CT+%0D%0A%09%09%09+17+Hunters+Ridge+Rd,+Killingworth+US?entry=gmail&source=g>-CT >>> 41.40574, -72.59557
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-CT+%0D%0A%09%09%09+17+Hunters+Ridge+Rd,+Killingworth+US?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> 21 0
>>> 10/12/24 incidental 14 US-FL Penney Farms 21 0
>>> *Date* *Total Time (hours)* *Number of birders* *Country/State/
>>> Province* *Team's eBird Location* *Team Name* *eBird Species* *eBird
>>> Other Taxa*
>>> 10/12/24 0.58 2 PT-02 Craveiral Farmhouse Big Sit 19 0
>>> 10/13/24 0.70 1 US-ME Grandview Point, Little Sebago Lake 19 0
>>> 10/13/24 2.00 2 US-CT Riverbound Farm Sanctuary 19 0
>>> 10/13/24 0.50 1 US-TX
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-TX+%0D%0A%09%09%09+7+Hope+Boulevard,+Galveston,+Texas,+US?entry=gmail&source=g> Crescent
>>> Lakes 16 0
>>> 10/13/24 2.00 3 US-NY EABC Beaver Island State Park NY Sledding Hill
>>> 14 0
>>> 10/13/24 7.25 2 US-CT Filley Road Haddam CT
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-CT+%0D%0A%09%09%09+Filley+Road+Haddam+CT?entry=gmail&source=g> >>>
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-CT+%0D%0A%09%09%09+Filley+Road+Haddam+CT?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> 14 0
>>> 10/12/24 6.00 1 US-PA
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-PA+%0D%0A%09%09%09+6236+Jerome+Boulevard,+Harrisburg,+Pennsylvania,+US?entry=gmail&source=g> 6236
>>> Jerome Boulevard, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-PA+%0D%0A%09%09%09+6236+Jerome+Boulevard,+Harrisburg,+Pennsylvania,+US?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> (40.341, -76.781)
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/US-PA+%0D%0A%09%09%09+6236+Jerome+Boulevard,+Harrisburg,+Pennsylvania,+US?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> 12 1
>>> Golden Bird Award for the Big Sit!® 2024
>>>
>>> It has been five years since the New Haven Bird Club, Inc., once again
>>> resumed administration of the Big Sit! ® from Birdwatchers Digest. The
>>> event was started by the New Haven Bird Club in 1992, but was soon being
>>> administered by Birdwatcher’s Digest and grew to be the international event
>>> that it is today. We have had circles in more than six different countries.
>>>
>>> Zeiss sponsored the Golden Bird Award for 2024 by donating a pair of
>>> Conquest HDX 8x 42 binoculars. The “Golden Bird” itself is randomly drawn
>>> from all of the bird species reported for the Big Sit!®. Next, the winning
>>> circle is randomly drawn from all of the circles that reported the Golden
>>> Bird species.
>>>
>>> The Golden Bird for 2024 is the Yellow-throated Euphonia
>>> <https://thebigsit.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f41d249f36010a98a32743af0&id=fe6ab5c407&e=3f4de67a9a> >>> (Euphonia hirundinacea). This bird is found in southeastern Mexico and
>>> throughout Central America with its range stretching from Belize south to
>>> western Panama. It inhabits primarily both humid and dry regions where it
>>> prefers the forest edge, open woodland, and shaded plantations.
>>>
>>> The winning circle for 2024 is The Lost Tinamou
>>> <https://thebigsit.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f41d249f36010a98a32743af0&id=c1f0b0f179&e=3f4de67a9a>,
>>> Finca La Gracia's birding center located in Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa, in
>>> the municipality of Escuintla, Guatemala. This sanctuary, on land that was
>>> previously used for coffee cultivation, is today occupied by very humid
>>> subtropical (warm) forest. The Finca La Gracia sanctuary is a refuge among
>>> a sea of intensive cattle ranching, pineapple, rubber, and sugarcane
>>> fields. The native flora and fauna have found refuge in this relatively
>>> small preserve.
>>>
>>> The New Haven Bird Club’s Big Sit! ® committee is looking forward to
>>> some exciting developments for 2025. We are entering into a partnership
>>> with World Migratory Bird Day so the Big Sit! ® will be promoted as an
>>> activity for their international event. One of the two World Migratory Bird
>>> Days usually falls on the second Saturday of October. Also, we have heard
>>> that eBird has been working on some changes in their data reporting
>>> functionality that will make eBird checklists for the Big Sit! ® easier
>>> to submit and will capture more information. We are also looking forward to
>>> a new look on our website that will feature mapping capabilities.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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