Blog Post 6

After a very stressful week with very confusing and hard to work with data, I finally have some substantial progress made on what will go on my final poster.
Kernel density finally worked after many issues on my computer led to Dr. M having to do it on her computer for me (thank you!!!).
I now have three kernel density rasters showing the density of peregrine falcon sightings in 2017 (based on birder citizen- science program "Ebird" data) for winter only, summer only, and year round data. I then overlaid the USGS maps of the winter, summer, and year round ranges to see if the sighting locations lined up with the expected range. I have been messing around with the colors to try and find the best way of portraying the overlap (or lack thereof) between the two layers. I might consider doing a raster analysis now that we have done chapter 11 to identify the areas where the two areas do actually overlap, and what percentage of the range that actually adds up to. There's lots more to do but I feel ore on track now!