Haans,
While I am fairly new to this listserve,I must add that life is too short and sometimes a bit dull to take things like April fools jokes so seriously!
Happy birding,
The ORIGINAL Jimmy Kimmel~;)


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> 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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