Personally, even though the early versions of eBird didn’t attract me, eventually I decided to really give it a try, and it truly has been the tool that has brought me back into full-on birding. It’s simple to use, I enjoy capturing my sightings in it, and the information it contains has been invaluable for researching places to go, important distinctions in bird identification, etc. I would encourage every birder to jump into eBird with both feet and not only help themselves, but the entire birding community. That’s my two bits…Jonathan Barnett, Horseshoe Bend

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From: ible@yahoogroups.com on behalf of ‘Mike M’ strix.nebulosa1987@gmail.com [ible]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:21:34 PM
To: lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com; ible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [IBLE] eBird

Brian, Tom ,and IBLE,

I would tend to agree. I have issues with eBird as well. In addition to what your issue I personally don’t like limitations to for my own use. For example I tend to record a lot of behavior with my sightings not just a count.. I also record a number of other taxa when I am out birding. I use a program called Birder’s Diary (it’s a PC program so no internet or sign in needed). In part because it allows me to added as much text as I want to every sighting. It also lets me track other taxa. So using that, if I want I can generate a life list or a county, yard list etc. I can generate a list of species seen in National Parks or a particular national park for example. I can do that with birds, mammals, reptiles, butterflies, dragonflies, wild trees, wildflowers, etc.

That being said one could say I am an eBird hypocrite because even though I don’t enter lists I do regularly look at it. I frequently check it out to see what others are seeing on the refuge where I work as well as the county where I am.

Mike Munts
Colville, WA

PS Brian, Always enjoy your posts. Too bad I never had a chance to meet you when I lived in Arco.

From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 10:37 AM
To: ible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBLE] eBird

Have to admit, I have not entered data into eBird in many years. Suppose two reasons. First is probably just laziness on my part. As it means another sign in & navigation of a site. Second is the last time I tried data entry into eBird was sev winters ago & attempted to enter approx 100 Trumpeter Swans wintering just east of Springfield & kept getting a msg pop-up stating the number was out of ordinary for location & I couldn’t get the number entered. So, I exited the site in frustration & have made no further attempts at data entry on the site.

Perhaps, there was a way to get the entry accepted but just felt it wasn’t worth my time. So, I have not entered any of my blue jay data. Probably not very good reasons for not entering eBird data. However, I do also just plain enjoy IBLE & just haven’t felt the urge to try eBird again.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

Brian, Tom ,and IBLE,

I would tend to agree. I have issues with eBird as well. In addition to what your issue I personally don’t like limitations to for my own use. For example I tend to record a lot of behavior with my sightings not just a count. I also record a number of other taxa when I am out birding. I use a program called Birder’s Diary (it’s a PC program so no internet or sign in needed). In part because it allows me to added as much text as I want to every sighting. It also lets me track other taxa. So using that, if I want I can generate a life list or a county, yard list etc. I can generate a list of species seen in National Parks or a particular national park for example. I can do that with birds, mammals, reptiles, butterflies, dragonflies, wild trees, wildflowers, etc.

That being said one could say I am an eBird hypocrite because even though I don’t enter lists I do regularly look at it. I frequently check it out to see what others are seeing on the refuge where I work as well as the county where I am.

Mike Munts

Colville, WA

PS Brian, Always enjoy your posts. Too bad I never had a chance to meet you when I lived in Arco.

From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 10:37 AM
To: ible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBLE] eBird

Have to admit, I have not entered data into eBird in many years. Suppose two reasons. First is probably just laziness on my part. As it means another sign in & navigation of a site. Second is the last time I tried data entry into eBird was sev winters ago & attempted to enter approx 100 Trumpeter Swans wintering just east of Springfield & kept getting a msg pop-up stating the number was out of ordinary for location & I couldn’t get the number entered. So, I exited the site in frustration & have made no further attempts at data entry on the site.

Perhaps, there was a way to get the entry accepted but just felt it wasn’t worth my time. So, I have not entered any of my blue jay data. Probably not very good reasons for not entering eBird data. However, I do also just plain enjoy IBLE & just haven’t felt the urge to try eBird again.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

E.bird section did my other e mail plea for aid go thru someone please
respond

us too, OFF our keasters and biking/birding more often, with or without eBird 😉
BTW, Tom and Kim, Missy and I saw our FOY hummer along the greenbelt today, male Calliope
woohoo….!!

LA

From: “Kim Liebich birdkimliebich@gmail.com [ible]”
To: “Tom McCabe”
Cc: “lcarrigan_55” , “IBLE”
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [IBLE] eBird

Tom – I just need to get off my keaster and ride with you… =)

On Apr 23, 2019, at 4:32 PM, Tom McCabe < [ mailto:tmccabe9@cableone.net | tmccabe9@cableone.net ] > wrote:

Brian:
I’ll have to admit that my experience with eBird was similar to yours. A number of years ago, I tried to report the 5 Pied-billed Grebes I’d seen on my bike ride, and I was told that was too many for that time of year. Plus, I was told I went too far on my bike ride. Apparently eBird likes 5 mile segments.
Plus, I don’t write down my birds as I go along, I simply write them down after I get home, in the order I saw them. That makes inputting location a problem. And now that there is an app to enter the data and the location (apparently), that would require stopping every time I saw or heard a bird so I could futz around with my phone.
While I appreciate the importance of all the citizen science data that is being accumulated, my first experience turned me off, and I haven’t had the desire to go back. And Kim has repeatedly encouraged me. Could it be that I’m getting old and resisting change?
Tom McCabe, Boise
From: [ mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com | ible@yahoogroups.com ] [ [ mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com | mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com ] ] On Behalf Of Kim Liebich [ mailto:birdkimliebich@gmail.com | birdkimliebich@gmail.com ] [ible]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:58 PM
To: [ mailto:lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com | lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com ]
Cc: < [ mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com | ible@yahoogroups.com ] > < [ mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com | ible@yahoogroups.com ] >
Subject: Re: [IBLE] eBird
Hey Brian – I’m writing to offer encouragement. Give it another try! =). You can do it. Honestly, they’ve made the website and the Phone App much easier to navigate. You got this. Write back if you need assistance. =)kim
AND – if you’re in Boise area… fun to see 2 avocets out by the cows at Harris Ranch. Probably some other nifty leggy things out there, but I need to go back and look.
Happy Spring. =)k

BQ_BEGIN

On Apr 22, 2019, at 11:37 AM, [ mailto:lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com | lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com ] [ible] < [ mailto:ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com | ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com ] > wrote:

Have to admit, I have not entered data into eBird in many years. Suppose two reasons. First is probably just laziness on my part. As it means another sign in & navigation of a site. Second is the last time I tried data entry into eBird was sev winters ago & attempted to enter approx 100 Trumpeter Swans wintering just east of Springfield & kept getting a msg pop-up stating the number was out of ordinary for location & I couldn’t get the number entered. So, I exited the site in frustration & have made no further attempts at data entry on the site.

Perhaps, there was a way to get the entry accepted but just felt it wasn’t worth my time. So, I have not entered any of my blue jay data. Probably not very good reasons for not entering eBird data. However, I do also just plain enjoy IBLE & just haven’t felt the urge to try eBird again.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

BQ_END

Tom – I just need to get off my keaster and ride with you… =)

> On Apr 23, 2019, at 4:32 PM, Tom McCabe wrote:
>
> Brian:
> I’ll have to admit that my experience with eBird was similar to yours. A number of years ago, I tried to report the 5 Pied-billed Grebes I’d seen on my bike ride, and I was told that was too many for that time of year. Plus, I was told I went too far on my bike ride. Apparently eBird likes 5 mile segments.
> Plus, I don’t write down my birds as I go along, I simply write them down after I get home, in the order I saw them. That makes inputting location a problem. And now that there is an app to enter the data and the location (apparently), that would require stopping every time I saw or heard a bird so I could futz around with my phone.
> While I appreciate the importance of all the citizen science data that is being accumulated, my first experience turned me off, and I haven’t had the desire to go back. And Kim has repeatedly encouraged me. Could it be that I’m getting old and resisting change?
> Tom McCabe, Boise
>
> From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Kim Liebich birdkimliebich@gmail.com [ible]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:58 PM
> To: lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [IBLE] eBird
>
>
> Hey Brian – I’m writing to offer encouragement. Give it another try! =). You can do it. Honestly, they’ve made the website and the Phone App much easier to navigate. You got this. Write back if you need assistance. =)kim
>
> AND – if you’re in Boise area… fun to see 2 avocets out by the cows at Harris Ranch. Probably some other nifty leggy things out there, but I need to go back and look.
>
> Happy Spring. =)k
>
>
>> On Apr 22, 2019, at 11:37 AM, lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible] > wrote:
>>
>> Have to admit, I have not entered data into eBird in many years. Suppose two reasons. First is probably just laziness on my part. As it means another sign in & navigation of a site. Second is the last time I tried data entry into eBird was sev winters ago & attempted to enter approx 100 Trumpeter Swans wintering just east of Springfield & kept getting a msg pop-up stating the number was out of ordinary for location & I couldn’t get the number entered. So, I exited the site in frustration & have made no further attempts at data entry on the site.
>>
>> Perhaps, there was a way to get the entry accepted but just felt it wasn’t worth my time. So, I have not entered any of my blue jay data. Probably not very good reasons for not entering eBird data. However, I do also just plain enjoy IBLE & just haven’t felt the urge to try eBird again.
>>
>> Brian Carrigan
>> Blackfoot
>>
>
>
>

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Brian:

I’ll have to admit that my experience with eBird was similar to yours. A number of years ago, I tried to report the 5 Pied-billed Grebes I’d seen on my bike ride, and I was told that was too many for that time of year. Plus, I was told I went too far on my bike ride. Apparently eBird likes 5 mile segments.

Plus, I don’t write down my birds as I go along, I simply write them down after I get home, in the order I saw them. That makes inputting location a problem. And now that there is an app to enter the data and the location (apparently), that would require stopping every time I saw or heard a bird so I could futz around with my phone.

While I appreciate the importance of all the citizen science data that is being accumulated, my first experience turned me off, and I haven’t had the desire to go back. And Kim has repeatedly encouraged me. Could it be that I’m getting old and resisting change?

Tom McCabe, Boise

From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Kim Liebich birdkimliebich@gmail.com [ible]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:58 PM
To: lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: [IBLE] eBird

Hey Brian – I’m writing to offer encouragement. Give it another try! =). You can do it. Honestly, they’ve made the website and the Phone App much easier to navigate. You got this. Write back if you need assistance. =)kim

AND – if you’re in Boise area… fun to see 2 avocets out by the cows at Harris Ranch. Probably some other nifty leggy things out there, but I need to go back and look.

Happy Spring. =)k

On Apr 22, 2019, at 11:37 AM, lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible] > wrote:

Have to admit, I have not entered data into eBird in many years. Suppose two reasons. First is probably just laziness on my part. As it means another sign in & navigation of a site. Second is the last time I tried data entry into eBird was sev winters ago & attempted to enter approx 100 Trumpeter Swans wintering just east of Springfield & kept getting a msg pop-up stating the number was out of ordinary for location & I couldn’t get the number entered. So, I exited the site in frustration & have made no further attempts at data entry on the site.

Perhaps, there was a way to get the entry accepted but just felt it wasn’t worth my time. So, I have not entered any of my blue jay data. Probably not very good reasons for not entering eBird data. However, I do also just plain enjoy IBLE & just haven’t felt the urge to try eBird again.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

Hey Brian – I’m writing to offer encouragement. Give it another try! =). You can do it. Honestly, they’ve made the website and the Phone App much easier to navigate. You got this. Write back if you need assistance. =)kim

AND – if you’re in Boise area… fun to see 2 avocets out by the cows at Harris Ranch. Probably some other nifty leggy things out there, but I need to go back and look.

Happy Spring. =)k

> On Apr 22, 2019, at 11:37 AM, lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible] wrote:
>
> Have to admit, I have not entered data into eBird in many years. Suppose two reasons. First is probably just laziness on my part. As it means another sign in & navigation of a site. Second is the last time I tried data entry into eBird was sev winters ago & attempted to enter approx 100 Trumpeter Swans wintering just east of Springfield & kept getting a msg pop-up stating the number was out of ordinary for location & I couldn’t get the number entered. So, I exited the site in frustration & have made no further attempts at data entry on the site.
>
> Perhaps, there was a way to get the entry accepted but just felt it wasn’t worth my time. So, I have not entered any of my blue jay data. Probably not very good reasons for not entering eBird data. However, I do also just plain enjoy IBLE & just haven’t felt the urge to try eBird again.
>
> Brian Carrigan
> Blackfoot
>
>

Recently my national audubon app quit the e bird portion they said
uninstall them reapply Dumb me could not do .any one solved this it’s
frustrating being in hospital 16 days