Hi Bill, and my home-state birders:

I agree with your suggestion to post sightings to the list.  I disagree
strongly with your characterization of anything but the list as 'some
obscure gossip site'.  Curiously I despise and do not use most social media
but you won't catch me maligning it as  social media are invaluable
resources and extremely effective means of communication.  Whether you like
it or not, Twitter and especially Facebook (and eBird!!) have actually
swelled the ranks of birders, and improved bird reporting and
identification.  They have in no way damaged birding.

To steer this conversation back to birding, the fallout of seabirds in the
Tucson area will go down as one of the most amazing birding events in
recent memory.  I lived (very!) vicariously through the posts of all the
birders seeing *first ABA area records* from their own driveways.  I'd
encourage folks to give the AZ/NM listserve a look.

good birding to all

Tim Spahr
Former Ohio birder and now ex-pat in Massachusetts



On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> There was an extremely rare sighting of a wedge-rumped storm-petrel in
> AZ yesterday, and perhaps it has been seen this morning. I am no longer
> a chaser, but this reminded me of a string to make rare birds known to
> everyone who is.
>        Stop using social media, and report rarities on THIS LIST dedicated
> to
> the birds of Ohio. Have a look at the NC bird list
> http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NzC  to see a helpful discussion of
> reporting birds on all sorts of forums (hint: Nate Diaz has it right).
> Start with the post from yesterday titled "anyone Tweeting" and scroll
> up to four remarks that followed. You can keep great finds to yourself
> if you care to, but if you want to share them with everyone who will
> want to know start posting on Ohiobirds, not some obscure gossip site...
> Bill Whan
>
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