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.

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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