[orebird] Re: Craig Miller will be the new Lake County reviewer
- From: Matthew G Hunter <matthewghunter@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: orebird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 13:08:26 -0800
Alan has been a very good friend of mine for 35 years. Dave is right. I
could fill pages with praise and descriptions of Alan's talents and
accomplishments (many of which are not known to Oregon birders), but I
don't think this "job" would interest him in the least. Keep looking....
Matt
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 9:54 PM, David Irons <llsdirons@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> On the surface Alan may seem like a logical choice. In practice I suspect
> he wouldn't be a very good reviewer for the following reasons.
>
> 1. He is not a user of eBird per se. He has at times paid his young
> birding friends to enter checklists going back several years, but he has
> rarely input his own checklists and it is not a normal part of his birding
> regimen to do so.
>
> 2. For years he has told anyone who will listen that he is no longer
> interested in being the "East Coast Distributor of Involved" (see "Field of
> Dreams"). He wants to be left alone and to not be bothered by forced
> interactions with other birders. His participation in ancillary birding
> activities is fairly limited these days and I'm sure he would readily dump
> all of the few responsibilities that he currently has.
>
> 3. Think about his responses to ID questions etc. on OBOL. They are
> generally exceedingly short, glib, and rarely include nuggets of
> information that educate the masses. In his mind he has served his term and
> he doesn't owe the Oregon birding community any more of his time. If he
> were to somehow be talked into taking on this responsibility, he would
> likely take a rather casual approach to contacting and interacting with
> users whose reports had been flagged. This duty takes a commitment to
> rolling up your sleeves and getting into exchanges with users and hopefully
> teaching them to be better eBirders as you go. Alan, whom I consider a good
> friend, is not that guy.
>
> Dave Irons
>
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> From: withgott@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [orebird] Re: Craig Miller will be the new Lake County reviewer
> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:35:25 -0800
> To: orebird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> Maybe Alan Contreras for Harney & Malheur?
>
>
> On Feb 28, 2015, at 9:21 PM, David Irons wrote:
>
> Greetings All,
>
> Craig Miller has agreed to take on the responsibility of being the local
> reviewer for Lake County as soon as we can get him set up with admin
> access. Also, does he then need to subscribe to this list to start
> receiving our various communications. I can't remember how this is set up.
>
> Craig begged off on the idea of taking on all three southeastern Oregon
> counties, thus we still need to find reviewers for Malheur and Harney
> counties. I can certainly handle Malheur on an interim basis, but it would
> probably be best to have someone more familiar with the county than me
> doing this job. Harney is not too bad most of the year, but once May hits
> it gets crazy. I still think that Tim Blount would be a good option, but
> I'm not sure how active he is as eBird user. It appears not very.
>
> Dave Irons
>
>
>
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