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I started collected my data in month of April, during clear and sunny afternoon days. It was a very warm and windy day here in Vancouver Island. I just sat in observable distance from the feeder and spent an hour to collect the data. In order to thoroughly collect data, I decided to double the number of samples i.e. total 10 samples (days) in my final data and made replicates by including another feeder at my friend’s backyard in order to get supportive data for my hypothesis. Before starting my sampling, I put the feeder for one day in order to let know the birds about it which I believe this simple adjustment helped me maintain a greater quality of samples and helped me record more bird species. I did not observe any new patterns during this exercise though I observed a unknown specie of bird so I named it as “unknown specie A”. The data collected seems to support my hypothesis.
It is hard to remember all the hypotheses as I go along, try to be specific in your posts. Overall, sounds like successful sampling! I do see some patterns in your data looking at your graph, does that make you think of anything?