I was going to say, you guys have missed all the interest that is being had
on the Facebook page...We have had lots of discussion about the picture I
took of a Norwegian Horned Grebe over at Killdeer Plains.:
http://www.sjlarue.com/p812826934/h2971C5CC#h2971c5cc
Here is the FB link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BirdingOhio/permalink/602502096506958/
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Gene Stauffer <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Those who say there were no April Fool posts were not reading the posts
> very
> carefully. I suggest you go back and look at photos referenced in the
> posts.
>
> Gene Stauffer
> Grove City
>
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> From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Haans
> Petruschke
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 5:48 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] Fwd: April fools posting
>
> Thanks Joe, I agree
>
> A few of points beyond curmudgeonly behavior on the part of some.
>
> 1. A good April 1 post requires planning. It cannot be done spur of the
> moment or else it ends up being something like reporting an Ivory-billed
> Peckerwood. Lame.
>
> 2. The person doing the post must have a high level of visibility and
> credibility in the community. I don't really qualify anymore because I
> only post a handful of times a year.
>
> 3. It must border on being believable, but, be a bit beyond. What this is
> varies, but the idea is to just suck people in. Make it just plausible
> enough that even experts will question it even though it is really a 1 in a
> billion chance of being real.
>
> 4. It really helps if you have cooperation or collaboration. A classic was
> when I posted a Boat-billed Heron at Shipman Pond and Joe Hammod
> photoshopped a picture which he posted as a confirmation of the sighting,
> having charted a helicopter to travel several hundred miles in 90 minutes
> after my report. Fun!
>
> While I don't post much I do still read the list serve posts daily. I
> think another reason for the lack of fun is the community has changed. The
> Ohio Birds List Serve rarely has any interesting discussion as it did a
> decade ago, and if you do post a non sighting you get plenty of hate mail.
> Also the Ohio birding community has become quite divided or fictionalized
> in the past 4 years or so. When it was a private entity run by VWF III,
> discussion and having fun was encouraged. Now birding has become, for
> some, an economic interest and so nothing which might discourage interest
> is in any way received without protest.
>
> Finally a whole lot of the bird related discussion had migrated to
> Facebook. We have some excellent groups here in Ohio and our state is on
> the leading edge of this. I was hoping to see something there. I would
> have done something myself but did not have time because I'm in the middle
> of transferring computers.
>
> Haans
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Joe Faulkner <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
>
> > Fellow birders with and without a sense of humor,
> >
> > It appears that a reasonably harmless tradition on this list serve
> has
> > been stomped to death like a wounded pigeon on a New York side walk. I
> > speak, of course, of the bazaar sightings and events often posted on
> April
> > 1st by some of the veteran birders on this list serve. I personally
> > thought they were fun, and for the most part, quite harmless. If a few
> > beginning and apparently gullible birders got fooled and chased something
> > that wasn't there, then too bad. That's what April Fools Day is all
> about.
> > I fooled several of you and my good friend Rick Taylor into believing
> that
> > my dog was eaten by a Great Horned Owl. He stayed up all night trying to
> > figure out how to keep me from killing the owl, and called me a very bad
> > name when he found out the truth. I got many sympathy emails about that
> > dog. Rick and I are still friends, and the dog is fine.
> > Please note that the well regarded NPR does a April Fools day story
> > every year, that fools a lot of people, including me. Two of my birding
> > colleagues have already told me that they looked for April fools posts
> > today, and were disappointed when they didn't find any.
> > As I recall the composition of this group, we are all mature
> (mostly)
> > adults(mostly) who can take a joke (mostly). So, I am personally hoping
> > that next April 1, there will be a few more bazaar sightings and bazaar
> > events that fool a few gullible people. If they are beginning birders,
> > they would still have access to calendars , and would know, just like the
> > rest of us, that it is April Fools Day.
> >
> > Joe in the woods
> > Somerset, Ohio
> > Perry County
> >
> > By the way, I found a NESTING SNOWY OWL at the Perry County Wilds, but
> > chose not to post it. Didn't want anyone driving down here and
> disturbing
> > the nesting owl.
> >
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