Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:15:30 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Christian Kessler Subject: Re: Offlist: massive scoters flocks in NJ In-Reply-To: <006c01c40b01$cb215a50$6401a8c0@HERKY> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ah, but remember how the original height of Mt. Everest was generated. the British surveyors made 3 measurements, then averaged those -- & got exactly 29,000 feet. knowing that they would not be believed if they claimed the mountain was exactly 29,000 feet tall, they arbitrarily added 28 feet to be credible. he must have estimated the flock 3 times, then averaged, but failed to round to the nearest thousand to maintain credibility in the estimates. jck. George M. Jett wrote: >Kevin > >How can you have an exact number of "155,422 scoters" if you have >estimated the number of Black Scoters as "About 41,000"? > >The scientist in me says there is something wrong with your number. > >George > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Kevin Graff" >To: >Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 8:02 PM >Subject: [MDOSPREY] Offlist: massive scoters flocks in NJ > > > > >>Hi all, >> >> >> This is offlist. Just to let everybody know that >>last Sat Mar 13th. I saw about 155,422 scoters off >>Cape May Point at Sunset Beach in NJ in about 2 hours >>of estimate/actual counting. Most are staging in area. >> About 41,000 are Black, 23 White-winged, and rest are >>Surf, Must be the same flock that everyone saw at CBBT >>in last few weeks. >> >>I hope this offlist stuff won't hurt. >> >> >> Kevin Graff >> Jarrettsville & Ocean City, MD >> ocean_city2001@yahoo.com >> >> >>__________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam >>http://mail.yahoo.com >> >>====================================================================== >>= >>To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >>with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >>======================================================================= >> >> >> > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= > > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================