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 > > Because we have had a problem with delayed e-mails through Road Runner > (Time > Warner Cable) please send replies or new e-mails to > [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > 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. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > > Please consider joining our Society, at > > www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. > > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > > listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Please consider joining our Society, at > www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Please consider joining our Society, at > www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. 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