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 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > > > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > <javascript:;> > > > <javascript:;> > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > <javascript:;> > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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.miamioh.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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]