The Official Count to Hawkcount.org

On Sunday the 10th, Bill reports only 7 in his totals of SS for the day, with a total of 11 Raptors. But when Jimmy records the data, he puts in the hourly totals in the Hawkcount records, and they give us the official total back. Hawcount's chart auto adds the numbers. If there is a report descrepancy, Jimmy asks Bill for a final. So today is one of those days. I will record the official numbers, because I need to agree with the hawkcount totals to verify our numbers on a daily, monthly basis. So at end of season, Bill may have a hawk here and there, more or less than his official report. It is extremely difficult at season's end to go hour by hour bird by bird to find the differences. So we try to keep on track of them daily. But even so, there will be a slightly different total. Last year it was several birds, and all we do on our end is verify that what Jimmy enters matches Bill's hourly birds, unless he instructs us for exact changes. Today will be one of those days. Bill specified we enter the sharpies as 7. So his final numbers are on his report that way. But Jimmy changed the hourly on Hawkcount,org to reflect that change. I only mention it here, so we have a reason to know there was a change made, and there is no confusion later. Because Jimmy will often refer to here to compare notes, just as I record Bill's emails, and refer to Hawkcount to verify we all 3 agree to the best of our ability. It is only a testiment to maintain accuracy as much as possible. And in case you read the report and add the numbers..LOL Numbers can be changed after the fact for a number of reasons. One of the most common is not feeling good about a call of a super high bird. Sometimes that can be resolved by entering in the column of Unidentified Raptors: Accipiters, Falcons, Buteo, Eagle or just plain Raptor. Sometimes it is just an issue of not being sure it was migrating. And others...Maybe if it was a raptor at all. So this decision comes up. And now we know why the report and the count don't match today. And that is OK. OK??? HAPPY FALL Y'ALL!