The class will every Saturday at 3:15 pm in the undercroft of Sts. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church starting on Saturday, September 12th.
The class will study the lectionary readings for the following day, Sunday. Our first class will be studying the readings for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, 2 Corinthians 4:6-15 and Matthew 22:35-46.
Here is a link to the lectionary from the Orthodox Study Bible. It is the same as the lectionary found in the back of the Orthodox Study Bible.
This page is no longer updated. Please go to Birds at McKinley for current information.
Here are the birds BirdNET-GO identified at my feeder on with a confidence greater than 0.799. Please note: These results are using AI only and not reviewed by anyone.
2025-01-26 - American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
2025-01-26 - Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
2025-01-26 - European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
2025-01-26 - House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
2025-01-26 - Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
2025-01-26 - Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
2025-01-26 - White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
2025-01-25 - American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
2025-01-25 - Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
2025-01-25 - Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
2025-01-25 - House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
2025-01-25 - Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
2025-01-25 - Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
2025-01-25 - Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
2025-01-25 - White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
2025-01-24 - American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
2025-01-24 - Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
2025-01-24 - House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)
2025-01-24 - Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
2025-01-24 - Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
2025-01-24 - White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
2025-01-23 - American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
2025-01-23 - Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
2025-01-23 - Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
2025-01-23 - Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)
2025-01-23 - House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)
2025-01-23 - Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
2025-01-23 - Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
2025-01-23 - White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
2025-01-22 - American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
2025-01-22 - Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
2025-01-22 - Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
2025-01-22 - House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
2025-01-22 - Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
2025-01-22 - Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
2025-01-22 - Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
2025-01-22 - White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
2025-01-21 - American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
2025-01-21 - Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
2025-01-21 - Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
2025-01-21 - Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
2025-01-21 - White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
2025-01-20 - American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
2025-01-20 - Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
2025-01-20 - Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)
2025-01-20 - House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
2025-01-20 - Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
2025-01-20 - Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
2025-01-20 - Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
2025-01-20 - White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
BirdNet is available for multiple operating systems including Linux. BirdNET is designed to work with sound files and not an audio stream. I have written a small script that creates audio files from a RTSP stream and continually sends the files to BirdNET for processing. The script can be found at https://gitlab.com/frrobert2/birdnet-addons/-/blob/main/birdnetrtsp.
Zettelkasten ID birnetrtsp-2024-06-14-1453
While new to birding, I quickly found out that house sparrows are a hot button topic. House sparrows being am invasive species in North America and aggressive towards many native species there are those who want to thin out the flock, some by passive means and some by active means. There are also those who want to let the house sparrow be. No matter which side you are on it would be helpful to reference Walter Bradford Barrow's paper,The English sparrow (Passer domesticus) in North America : especially in its relations to agriculture.
Barrow's paper was the first study about the house sparrow. In his study, he identifies the different native species of birds that are harassed by house sparrows. Many articles on the Internet mention Barrow's study and paper but most do not provide a link to the actual paper. Barrow's paper is available on archive.org at the following link, https://archive.org/details/cihm_06680/page/n5/mode/2up. Barrow's paper is really a book of 423 pages. However the section on Relation of the Sparrow to other Birds is nineteen pages.
I would suggest everyone read the section on Relation of the Sparrow to other Birds as a good background to the House Sparrow question.
Zettelkasten ID housesparrows-2024-06-12-0832
I am a little late with this post but as they say better late than never. The weekend of June third and fourth was the annual POTA Plaque event. I was able to activate both Potato Creek State Park, K-2265 and Chamberlain Lake State Nature Preserve, K-4189. I had a total of thirty-seven FT8 contacts. While not a lot of contacts I was able to make a QSO with 7N1FRE in grid square QM05, which made my day, as it is my longest contact so far.
Besides making a great contact, Roman, my black lab, and I had a great day at a couple of area parks.
Zettelkasten ID potaplaqueevent-2023-06-09-0645