Bibliographic record
Abstract
How to Get to the Cumberland Farms FieldsTake Route 495 toward Cape Cod, and get off at Exit 6 (Route 44 Middleboro/Plymouth).At the end of the off-ramp, take a right, and travel east a short distance on Route 44 to the Middleboro Rotary.Continue around the rotary, and get back on Route 44 going east.From the rotary it is 4.0 miles to Route 105 in Middleboro.Take a left on Route 105 (Plympton Street), and after half a mile bear left to stay on Route 105 (which becomes Thompson Street).Follow Route 105 for 3.4 miles and take a right on River Street.Continue on River Street for 0.4 mile to the main entrance to the Cumberland Farms fields, located in Halifax.To reach the destinations on the perimeter of the fields discussed in the article, follow the directions from the main entrance on River Street given for the winter season. Birding the Fields in the SummerThe best place to start birding the fields in summer is from the main entrance on River Street in Halifax.Be sure to park well to the left of the entrance road gate since, in recent years, there has been trucking activity along the main dirt road that runs south from the parking area.Birders should plan to walk the main road into the fields with several stops along the way.It is a little more than a mile from the entrance gate to the point where the road runs into a perpendicular dirt road at the southern end of the fields.Walk south on the main road until you arrive at a cluster of trees where the road passes over a culvert.Shortly after the culvert, the road is lined with pussy willow and a variety of small shrubs.Listen here for Willow Flycatchers.At least one pair has been present in this area for several years, though breeding has not yet been confirmed.Also here are Song Sparrows and, in the wetter areas, Common Yellowthroats.Eventually, the road opens up to reveal the extensive western half of the fields.At this point, a road goes left toward a large cluster of deciduous trees with a few smaller white pines.Before taking this left, listen and look for Indigo Buntings.Then follow the road on the left into the wooded area where Eastern Kingbirds, Warbling Vireos, Baltimore Orioles, and Black-billed Cuckoos may be present.On this road, you will soon come to the area known to local birders as the "manure pit."In early 2006, the company removed the manure pit and razed the immediate area.Shortly after, large sifters were brought in and trucks began hauling material out of the fields.If trucks are in the vicinity, or you can hear rumbling and crunching, it is best to avoid this area.Historically, the manure pit was a hot spot for shorebirds in late summer.It was not uncommon to find Least, Semipalmated, and Solitary sandpipers vigorously feeding in the wet parts of the manure flat.A Blacknecked Stilt was observed in the pit on one occasion in 1995.Since the removal of the manure pit, the wet, muddy areas created by the heavy equipment still attract some shorebirds.Killdeer and Spotted Sandpiper were both confirmed breeders in this area in 2007.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.932 | 0.935 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".