Paul,
The collectors among us and we are many (you included) generally like to have
an agreed upon scorecard that we use to keep track of our bird sightings. As a
member of the OBRC (Oregon Bird Records Committee) I have one-ninth of the
responsibility for the accuracy of that scorecard. I suppose we could join the
Pope and take a pass, but then how would those endeavoring to get 100 or 200
species in every Oregon county know which species they are able to count? I
don't think that a discussion of the identification challenges of separating
Cassin's and Plumbeous Vireos or discussing the rather murky status of
Plumbeous Vireo in Oregon qualifies as judging. There are a lot of us looking
hard and hoping to find this species in Oregon and up to now most of us have
met with no success.
"Just don't go there" doesn't work for me. Too much intellectual curiosity
about such things...and I'm hardly alone.
Dave Irons
From: paultsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [obol] deciding about Plumbeous Vireo sightings in Oregon
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:57:12 -0700
I’m with the Pope on this one: “Who am I to judge?” ;-) ;-) ;-) Paul
Sullivan P.S. You can add Common Pochard, Long-toed Stint, and wintering
Swainson’s thrushes to that list, too. Just don’t go there.
