For what it's worth, this is the full text one gets when a sighting is
flagged on eBird, as commonly happens when we see a not unCommon Raven
around central VA: This bird is rare for this date & location, please add
comments and check 'Complete'.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:29 PM, William Reid <wbreid3290@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not looking to beat a dead horse here... Maybe I just don't understand what
qualifies as a rare bird as it relates to the Commonwealth... I think I've
got a good handle on what qualifies as a rare bird nationally but it
appears to me that within our state the rare bird alerts are comprised of
birds that most reasonable birders would not consider "rare"...
And yes, I know.. If I don't want to read it, delete it...that doesn't
change the fact that our rare birds list doesn't contain rare birds...
Just sayin'
On Tuesday, April 28, 2015, SANDY <SANFAY@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My first action of the day is to delete the "[Va-bird] Fwd: [eBird Alert]delete
Virginia Rare Bird Alert <daily>"!!! I subscribe to VA-bird so I do not
need nor do I want the "...[Va-bird] Fwd:..." message. Sure, I can
it, but why must I have it in my mailbox in the first place.out
Sandy Holton
Falls Church
On 4/28/2015 5:35 PM, Ned Brinkley wrote:
Hi everyone, I guess the main issue here is that by now, after a decade
or so, almost everyone has heard of ebird, and anyone who wants to find
manageabout what birds have been seen in their area, or in the state, can
forwarded,alerts for themselves. This way, instead of a daily group email
andeveryone would be able to tailor their interests at the level of county
tostate so that they can receive alerts in the areas of specific interest
havethem. It's very easy to set up under My Ebird. And of course you don't
wrote:to submit checklists in order to receive the alerts. So I tend to be in
favor of reducing clutter on listserves, as Tom suggests.
Ned Brinkley
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 28, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Tom Saunders <birdnerd53@xxxxxxxxx>
and
I subscribe to VA-bird in the digest format and usually end up reading
on a
phone or tablet. I suspect that many others do the same. In the best of
times that means lots of scrolling to work down through the messages
postingI've developed a keen appreciation for brevity. I find the daily
hasof
" [Va-bird] Fwd: [eBird Alert] Virginia Rare Bird Alert <daily>"
particularly unhelpful and time wasting. For example, today's version
believingnine reports of dark-eyed junco (among numerous other species), each of
which consumed at least seven lines of text. I have a hard time
that,that information useful to anyone. Anyone who wishes to see this report
can
easily subscribe to it through eBird.
My instinct is to contact the poster and ask him to knock it off or, at
least, to edit the posts to eliminate duplicates, etc. Before I do
thesehowever, I thought I'd poll the list to see how many find value in
fewdaily posts vs. those who, like me, would prefer they be omitted.
Contact
me off line to vote yea or nay and I'll report back to the list in a
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Kilmarnock
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