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”
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
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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
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