LIGHTEN UP,  EVERYONE!

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From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alex
Eberts
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 2:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] April Fool's Day warning (no sighting)

I think it's very insensitive to call people "humorless" over something like
this. What if someone is a beginning birder, not very familiar with these
"traditions" or with what birds are likely or not, and they make the trip
halfway across the state for something that isn't real? There's nothing
wrong with a little joking, but intentions can be lost in translation and I
think it's very small-minded to think people are "humorless" just because
they don't want others to be fooled by a fake posting.

Good birding,

Alex Eberts
Columbus, OH


> On Apr 1, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Haans Petruschke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> The tradition of the April fools posts on the Ohio listserve had been
> around almost since the inception of the Listserve by Vic Fazio back
> in the 1990s.  But in recent years it has been beaten into the ground,
> by a very small set of individuals, in the guise of "protecting"
> beginners or others too gullible to know better.
>
> This is unfortunate as these posts were often very well done and very
> entertaining to the point of being hilarious. Stuff like Ivory-billed
> Peckerwood is far too obvious to be good.  The implausibility was
> always over the edge on the best ones. Sometimes there was even
> collaboration between birders as with the Boat-billed Heron in the mid
> 90s
>
> The truth is that only true fools actually fell for these posts, which
> was the whole point.  If you were sucked in by something as unlikely
> as a Great-horned Owl carrying off a German Shepard well...
>
> But this true and real *tradition* of almost 2 decades is now dead
> because of a very few, apparently humorless, people, and our Ohio
> birding community is a much poorer place because of it.
>
> Such a shame.
>
> Haans
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Dillon Nott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Man..... I guess I can't report my California Condors ether.....;)
>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Steve Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> What...you mean I should probably hold off on my Ivory-billed
>>> Woodpecker sighting till tomorrow? :-D
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Kathi Hutton <[log in to unmask]
>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Traditionally, someone usually takes advantage of the date to post
>>>> some rare, unusual, or even mythical bird sighting on April 1st.
>>>> Fair
>> warning:
>>>> If something sounds too good to be true today, don't get in your
>>>> car
>> and
>>>> start driving.
>>>>
>>>> No foolin'
>>>> Kathi
>>>>
>>>> Sent from iVan II, my iPhone
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