I just noticed a picture of a Piping Plover on the MOU website but the bird has 
not been seen since 5/7. The bird was not mentioned at all on this email 
thread. I scrolled through countless posts on the Minnesota Birding Facebook 
page to see if it was mentioned there and it was but just with one distant 
photograph that had to be clicked on to see the positive ID information. There 
is no way I have time to sort through all of those Facebook posts to find a 
rare bird (especially this time of year). Where are people posting rare bird 
information now (eBird rare bird alerts)? I find that rare sightings are 
becoming harder to locate and feel totally out of the loop with my limited time 
to spend searching for things. The Piping Plover would have been a much wanted 
"lifer" for me and I don't want to keep missing out on those opportunities (I 
happened to be busy on Saturday anyway but it's the principal of it all). Sorry 
for the (sort of) off topic post.


Jason Caddy

Minneapolis

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