Thanks, Kyle - I can pretty much echo everything you wrote but less articulately. I receive the daily rare bird reports from eBird and otherwise “depend on the kindness of strangers”, namely, the listserv from which I am reading your email. I haven’t found Facebook to be of value when it comes to alerts but maybe I don’t belong to the right group (I don’t care). I’m not going to chase accidentals but will be interested in unusual birds in the metro neighborhood. Really, there are so many great birds that I haven’t seen (or seen since in the last few years since I started submitting some lists to eBird) that I’m pretty happy just getting out in what’s left of local potholes and woods and seeing what’s up. If I’m taking pictures there is always a better photo to be made of just about every bird that I’ve photographed (hard lesson, that).
Tom Gilde ps: I never noticed a post about a mockingbird . Sent from my iPhone > On May 8, 2020, at 4:57 PM, Kyle TePoel > <00000583427559cc-dmarc-requ...@lists.umn.edu> wrote: > > Just a general question, spurred by the mockingbird email (but not about > the mockingbird specifically)--how many bird "things" (report sources) are > people signed up for? For example, the first email titled 'No > Mockingbird???' implied knowledge among the general MOU-net recipients > about a mockingbird in the first place (I didn't get an email about one > previously, anyway). There's no location mentioned in that or the follow-up > email, either--is it assumed this is common knowledge? I'm guessing it's a > bird reported on ebird (for which I don't yet have an account, so that > could be my problem), but I have multiple email listserv acounts and am on > multiple Minnesota bird-related Facbook groups. > > I'm not really a chaser, so it's not affecting me much but I am just > generally curious. That said, if something interesting were to be found > next door I could theoretically not know about it if I'm not getting all > the right reports. My question is not MOU-net specific; even if I was on > ebird, I'd miss things that are only posted here, or on Facebook, etc. And > it happens on the Facebook pages it happens too, where a report comes > through, often suggesting a unique bird has been somewhere for days, and > that everyone knows about it, but I can't be the only one who finds > themselves the last to know, am I? For those of you who think you have a > handle on pretty much all the birding reports locally, feel free to write > back with the list of sources you're receiving. I realize that ebird is > "THE" source for a lot of birders, yet I'm curious about the average number > of bird-related sources people are subscribing/contributing to. I consider > myself a serious (whatever that means) birder, and probably haven't heard > of them all. :) > > Kyle Te Poel > Stillwater Township, MN > > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 3:54 PM Julie Zempel <juliewinterzem...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Andy Nyhus got it this morning sometime around or before 8:30 am. I havent >> heard of any other reports, but I don't know if any others have tried for >> it. >> >> Julie Zempel >> >>> On Fri, May 8, 2020, 3:14 PM MOU <m...@moumn.org> wrote: >>> >>> (Posted by Chet A. Meyers <chetmeye...@qmail.com> via moumn.org) >>> >>> No Mockingbird today? >>> Chet Meyers >>> >>> ---- >>> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >>> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >>> >>> During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social >>> distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. >> >> ---- >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >> >> During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social >> distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
