Comments on: Wish List

By: vireo

vireo — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:37:11 +0000

On Allen’s vs Rufous - it’s difficult to tell them apart in the hand (I’m a volunteer bander - though we don’t band the hummers anymore, and I am NO where near expert status).
There are all kinds of measurements to take of individual tail feathers and the like. A
full grown male would be easiest of course. The discussions would be most fun and
informative.

My wish is for California quail on the road below. They must be there. Perhaps some
scattered corn and other grains would attract them.

And I second the wish for orioles - an oriole feeder is best, though they do come to
the hummer feeders in my back yard.

By: morgan

morgan — Sat, 05 May 2007 22:55:53 +0000

What about orange feeders?? Or a real hummingbird feeder? I would love to see orioles coming around frequently (that would give us an extra species or two). A hummingbird feeder would allow us to focus a lot easier on getting Anna’s, and given the location, I would expect the occasional Rufous, Allen’s, and even Calliope and Black-chinned if given enough time. I especially would look forward to the Classification battles that would take place over Allens v. Rufous. Hehe.

By: elanus

elanus — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:11:42 +0000

You actually can look at all the photos in a user’s gallery. You you get there by clicking on the user’s name in the top-10 list on the sign-in page (which you can get back to by clicking on the big CONE SUTRO FOREST headline at the top of every page), or any user’s name in the full user list you get by clicking on the “Show All” link at the bottom of it. Or you can click on a user’s name in various other places, like on the individual-photo page, where it says “Captured By: So and So”.

By: birds

birds — Sat, 05 May 2007 02:23:12 +0000

other ideas.. perhaps if there was a way to adjust the panning speed, then as it moved from the feeder to the bath, you could see things landing in the trees along the way, instead of a big blur when it moves. Otoh, it could get annoying if it moves around all slow. but that could be collaberatively controlled as well, and when there is not a lot of action, you could slow it down, and scan large areas more efficently

I know this wouldnt be a simple request, and it’d probably require a seperate camera/s (or wide angle), but it’d also be really cool if the panorama was updated more frequently, even once every 20 seconds, then you could catch stuff off camera a bit easier. again it’d be a fairly massive undertaking in terms of tech and code involved, but for future versions of the cone project it’d be a big enhancement

By: birds

birds — Sat, 05 May 2007 02:02:28 +0000

You’ll have to try and get ahold of craig somehow on his blog or somthign and tell him to throw some seeds around on the ground.

my wishes:

definitely a microphone would be really cool, peferably 2, setup so you could get stereo, then you could sorta tell what direction the noise came from.

a chat box on the camera app, that you could choose to use or not

a way to look at all the pics in a certian users gallery, give it more a social aspect

other environments, craigs backyard is awesome and everything, but wouldn’t one of these be cool in the galapagos or in the amazon, or underwater!