Hi all To add, just today while "walking the internet" I found two local "Birds and Brews" and "Northern Colorado" birding groups. Seems to have been around awhile as well. I agree with Joey, Diana people bird for personal reasons and "centralized or one-stop birding" is quickly disappearing--21st century digital birding is the norm. I even realize at some point my site below will become obsolete without change.
Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 3:03:07 PM UTC-6, otowi wrote: > > I also wonder how many people know about CObirds? There are a lot of > birders not subscribed to this or any other group. CObirds seems to me > kind of like an "insider" thing that only people in certain circles know > about, and that many are likely to assume is only for use by experts or > highly experienced birders to share reports with one another. Who is > really wanted to post here and what is post-worthy? > > An advantage of eBird is that you can keep your whole life list there > easily and can simply report what you think you saw - it feels a lot more > personal and functional for individual use. Just as phone lines have gone > by the wayside, egroups are a little old school today in terms of how > people actually use the Internet for social purposes, so using CObirds > requires many to take a set of unnatural steps that they wouldn't > ordinarily be doing. > > > > Diana Beatty > El Paso > > On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 12:53:16 PM UTC-6, Mark wrote: >> >> Recently, I have noticed a trend of good to great chaseable birds not >> being reported to CObirds but instead just added to the eBird checklist. >> The reason for the email is that yesterday, a Great-crested Flycatcher was >> reported from the Denver Botanical Gardens at Chatfield around 8:40 a.m. >> After looking at the photos attached to the checklist, I'm struggling to >> rule out a Brown-crested Flycatcher. The problem with this kind of >> reporting is that you're not hearing about the bird until the next day. A >> few weeks ago, a Tri-colored Heron was reported to CObirds and many people >> were able to see the bird before it disappeared the following day. I'm not >> trying to criticize a person's decision of reporting, because it is >> ultimately their choice. I'm trying to get a better understanding of why >> this trend is increasing so rapidly? >> >> Mark Chavez >> Lakewood-Green Mtn >> http://jaeger29.smugmug.com/ >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/c98a3676-c671-4a41-88b5-089ea0861dc9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
