Subject: Potential First State Record Won't Be Shared From: Pastor Al Schirmacher <pastoral AT PRINCETONFREECHURCH.NET>
(I hope people aren't getting sick of this, but I'll be brief.) > ... This birder took substantial notes and is relatively certain about the bird > they saw. However, the sighting will not be shared. > > It won't be documented because it would constitute a first state record and the > perception is, without photos, it would never be accepted. Come on, tell us what you saw! Right, it probably won't be accepted under the rules - should it be any other way? (Pardon me for correcting the great Carl Sagan, but extraordinary claims require ORDINARY evidence.) The record board often has to conclude, in effect, "it very likely was the bird, but we can't accept it for an official state record because..." But that doesn't mean the record isn't of interest and shouldn't be submitted!! > It won't be posted to the net because the perception is that people will judge > and negatively verbalize about the sighting... Well, if you just now learned that there are a**holes in this world, some of them quite eminent, I sympathize, but is that the way we should respond, to be intimidated?? How does that help anyone? Come on, tell us what you saw! Just write with caution and humility; if anybody responds by ridiculing you, I'm sure I won't be the only one attacking them. Steve Greenfield Minneapolis tapac...@q.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
