[Elecraft] Late Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Brian Hunt]

Cornell Labs puts out a really nice iPhone app called Merlin which includes regional databases, a search ladder to narrow down what you are trying to identify, photos and audio recordings and a brief description. We use it on hikes all the time to ID and try to call the birds we see. Great fun. 

73,
Brian, K0DTJ

> On Mar 7, 2021, at 14:51, kevinr <kevinr at coho.net> wrote:
> 
> It is time to prepare for migration season.  I scan a few bird books to memorize identifying marks.  Birds normally appear in low contrast locations, looking little like they do in photos. Habitat and behavior let you narrow your choices, but I find the best method is to learn their calls.  Even if you don't see them you can mark them off your life list.
> 
> A good source of bird songs is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They have quite a list of Eastern songbirds as well as other species.  This is the same lab which developed Spectrogram; the program many  of us used to adjust our K2 filters.  I need to find a similar site for the Western part of the continent.  Many species pass through on their way to Alaska and Canada.  I only see them one or two days a year.  It is my best time for spotting a new one.
> 
> Now to gather a goodly number of their recordings, and start listening.  Much like CW, it takes practice to learn more species' songs and calls.  Some birds make ten to twenty different sounds. There are a few which can only be differentiated by their calls; the species look exactly the same.