Hi All,
My 2c on the issue: when the list began it supplanted the telephone hotlines and (local and very clubby) phone trees. Now there are lots of alternatives all of which are about as equally effective timewise, so a birder can take his/her pick, and that dilutes participation in any one forum. The problem of course is that the initial bird-finder has to deal with multiple channels in order to post. I don’t like eBird and I don’t use it much, nor am I a Twitterer. OHIO-BIRDS (or MASSBIRD) are usually good enough for me (but I’ve rarely discover a truly mondo rarity that wasn’t in flight). Codes are available to simultaneously post, or receive, information on multiple social media, but there isn’t much public demand for them (according to some of my friends who work for Google, or in computer security).
That was the first of my 2c. The second is the reality that subscribers leave Ohio. How well are we/you/OOS doing at recruitment? I’ve promulgated OHIO-BIRDS with every new birder I’ve met in Ohio for the past two decades, but I’m not there anymore.
(BTW for the last 2 weeks a yellow-billed loon has been easily visible from the tip of Cape Cod, and since Sunday there’s been a redwing (European) in NH about 40 miles north of us.)
Dave Horn
Worcester, MA
(Columbus OH 1972-2016)
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