John, you may want to set up an eBird rare bird alert for your county on your account. When you login from a computer, click on My eBird, and scroll down until on the lower right you see Manage My Alerts. Click on that. Type in your county on the Rare Bird Alerts and/or Needs Alerts and other counties desired. As you enter each one, you click Subscribe. You will then get messages to the e-mail of your eBird account whenever an eBird report is made - so it won't be months later, but rather will be quite timely.
Diana Beatty El Paso County On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 6:49 PM John Rawinski <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes thank you Joe and all who contributed their time to keeping the RBA > current, and easy to use. It was a concise summation of birds happening in > our State. Even though I rarely chase any more, it was so helpful to know > what was being seen around the State. > > During the pandemic, I took it upon myself to become more familiar with > eBird. I am getting better, but not so much as using it as a rare bird > alert yet. I think things will fall through the cracks for me. If someone > posts on our cobirds messages, I may see it. But if someone posts something > in my area that is rare on eBird, I will likely not know about it until > maybe weeks after. Guess I will hope folks will continue to use cobirds as > a forum for bird observation and discussion. > > Changing times for sure...stay well friends. > > John Rawinski > Monte Vista, CO > > > > On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 9:26:00 AM UTC-6, Joe Roller wrote: >> >> Daily updates on rare and interesting birds in Colorado have been shared >> via Cobirds for over 14 years as the "Colorado Rare Bird Alert" (or >> Report). For 13 years, Joyce Takamine tirelessly compiled this list of >> rarities from all over the state, posting it with dates and places >> on the Cobirds listserv and into your email inboxes. >> >> After Joyce retired at the end of 2018, a few of us continued to compile >> the report. But our team of volunteers is no longer large enough to >> continue this informational service, which has been sponsored for years by >> the Denver Field Ornithologists. In the past we invited volunteers to join >> the RBA team of compilers, but we are no longer seeking those, as the RBA >> is over now. >> >> By way of history, the RBA continued the early notification work of >> dedicated birders like Dave Martin, Norm Erthal and Dick Schottler, who >> phoned in daily field updates to a DFO voice recorder. Local and visiting >> birders could dial in to hear these daily messages and keep abreast of the >> changing parade of rarities moving through Colorado. >> >> Even before that, DFO sponsored a "telephone tree" notification list in >> the 1960s and '70s. Each birder in the tree would get a a call from an >> excited birder up the list: "Hey! Bruce Webb found a Little Gull at Union >> Reservoir today. First state record! Call the next two birders on the list >> to let them know!" >> >> Before that? Perhaps birders used two tin cans and a string -- I don't >> know. >> >> In any event, the joy of sharing goes back a long time and will continue >> beyond the RBA. As many of you already know, eBird provides free updates of >> Colorado rare bird sightings as frequently as hourly. (Sign up at >> www.ebird.org/alerts) >> >> The CFO website has a section where bird reports appear the moment a >> checklist is sent to eBird. (cfobirds.org) >> >> On behalf of the current team of RBA compilers, thank you for allowing us >> to share the joy of discovery through the decades . . . and good birding! >> >> Joe Roller, Denver >> > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/cec31da6-0a35-4282-9bf7-a9542d4c903f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/cec31da6-0a35-4282-9bf7-a9542d4c903f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ****** All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAM-_j9s-drPEwf3pkovm_gUhQrjWnL_STbOyEk6pzNMV0EgaEw%40mail.gmail.com.
