Hello Norm, I just posted on Cobirds about a Scarlet Tanager at a well known eBird hotspot at Deer Creek Canyon Rd and W. Buckhorn. However, my cell phone service was not working there, so I had to pull over a little ways down the canyon to post it, giving the cross streets rather than the GPS info. And you're right - after posting it to eBird it is not yet showing up in the alerts. I will always defer to Cobirds! Rosanne J. Centennial,CO
On Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 11:37:44 AM UTC-6, birdernorm wrote: > > I, too, would like to thank the originators and compilers of the RBA from > over the years. I have checked it virtually every day that I have been in > town for years. Thanks again for all your efforts. I will miss it. > > Now for the suggestion: since the RBA is kaput, and there are lots of > folks who do not care to manipulate their way through eBird (which is not > that tough, by the way), it would be nice if those observing a rarity in > the field, particularly one that is within easy reach of other birders, to > post it from the location. I have eBird alerts running for numerous > counties, but I don't get those reports until the next day. My only > immediate access to interesting sightings is Cobirds. There have been > several instances recently when an unusual species appeared but no one > informed the birding community at large. For example, a scarlet tanager > was recently seen at Harriman Lake, just a few minutes from my house. > There were fifteen eBird reports filed, which means there were no doubt > twice that many observers, yet no one took a moment to post the bird to > Cobirds. I found out about the bird the next day, and it was a one-day > wonder. Either I missed any reports, or I don't have many friends. > Perhaps both. But at any rate, it would have been nice to have had a > chance to pop over there for a look. > > Just my two cents. As they say about the pandemic, we're all in this > together, and I have always found that one of the great joys of birding is > the sharing of birds with others who like them just as much as I do. > > Norm Lewis > Lakewood > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 'Andrews Robert' via Colorado Birds <[email protected] > <javascript:>> > To: Colorado Birds <[email protected] <javascript:>>; Joe Roller < > [email protected] <javascript:>> > Sent: Fri, May 29, 2020 4:09 am > Subject: Re: [cobirds] Rest in Peace, COLORADO RARE BIRD ALERT! > > Hello all, > I would like to join others in showing appreciation for the compilers of > the RBA we see on Cobirds. Since I spend most of the year thousands of > miles away from Colorado in West Africa, I don’t get any direct use of the > RBA for birding. But I did enjoy seeing a compilation of the most > interesting or unusual bird sightings from Colorado as a way to keep up > with what is happening in Colorado. Many thanks to Joyce and then Joe and > his team of volunteers and all of the other compilers who have provided > this service. > Bob Andrews > Yekepa, Nimba Co., Liberia, West Africa > > > On Tuesday, May 26, 2020, 09:26:03 AM MDT, Joe Roller <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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. 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