Jeff,
I can help if you like. I also just asked Dave and Shawneen to lend a hand but
sometimes they are gone, too.
Safe travels,
Doug
On Mar 3, 2017, at 5:55 AM, jeffharding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<jeffharding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So I've been in Colombia for a couple of weeks, and due to a couple rarities,
My review queue is growing. I assume. I write from the airport in Houston,
and haven't checked, but I haven't been taking a computer on trips, because
the smart phone works for most things. But last I checked, reviewing records
on a mobile device didn't work very well. Anyway we were totally disconnected
for a week, at a remote Pacific coast ecolodge, where the owner could only
get a signal if he stood in a rock at low tide, and he didn't usually share.
I see Tom McNamara's concerns, and hate to dissappoint people.
Should we have a vacation protocol? Best would be to have duplicate
reviewers, of course.
But should I let the statewide people know when I'm going away, so the could
look at the queue once and a while, and clear easy rarity events like the Gyr
and the Tufted Duck?
Not to brag or anything, but next month we plan to spend a week in a cabin at
3600 meters on a volcano near Popayan, and it won't be the last time then.
Would someone else like to back me up now and again, or take over altogether?
I've assumed, in low activity counties like Linn and Marion, it wasn't a
problem.
Cheers,
Jeff
Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone
------ Original message------
From: avitours
Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2017 1:10 PM
To: orebird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
Subject:[orebird] Re: Posting rarities to OBOL?
Russ -
I could go into a long winded answer, regurgitatING all of the obvious in's &
out's of this issue, but bottom line, I think you did the right thing. I
have and will continue to do the same thing.
Trent Bray, La Grande.
-------- Original message --------
From: Russ Namitz >
Date: 2/9/17 10:11 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: OReBird >
Subject: [orebird] Posting rarities to OBOL?
Hello all~
So, there was a COMMON GRACKLE coming to a feeder in Hines, OR back in
January. I thought about sending a message to OBOL, but refrained since it
was coming to a feeder. I declined to ask the owner about visitation and all
of that. What are your thoughts on posting/forwarding rarities that come
into our eBird que onto the general birding public?
My own thoughts are, unless the bird is coming to a private feeder, it is
perfectly acceptable to disseminate that information. If one goes through
the effort of communicating with the land owner and gets permission, that
would be acceptable as well.
Russ
