[texbirds] Re: We need a "bird of interest" program
- From: "Stevan Hawkins" <shawkins4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'tony gallucci'" <hurricanetg@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Tex Birds'" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:01:18 -0600
Tony:
Seeing the attachments on Texas Chase Birds was the major tipping point that
prompted me to join TCB.
Thanks!
Steve
From: tony gallucci [mailto:hurricanetg@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:20 AM
To: Steve Hawkins; Tex Birds
Subject: RE: [texbirds] Re: We need a "bird of interest" program
thanks Steve for prodding me on that . . . i probably should have made clear
in my post that the Texas Chase Birds group was never intended to be a place
of first or only reporting of rare birds, and indeed, so far, every report
there has originated somewhere else, although that's a mixed bag of
TexBirds, Facebook Texbirds, FW Audubon and eBird and solving that
dispersion is still an issue . . . the chase birds page was mostly for those
folks who wanted access to info from those other places in a timely fashion
but weren't interested in all the other stuff . . . i may write up a post to
make that clear . . .
tg
> From: shawkins4@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: hurricanetg@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [texbirds] Re: We need a "bird of interest" program
> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:02:41 -0600
>
> Tony:
>
>
>
> Your TexBirds note below about the TxChasers Facebook group finally gave
me
> a reason to create a Facebook page in the next few days. Nevertheless, if
> only for the benefit of people who don't know about the TxChasers group or
> who refuse to join Facebook, all rare birds in Texas should still be
posted
> to TexBirds. People who are new to birding in general and/or folks from
> other states and countries are not likely to know about alternatives to
> TexBirds.
>
>
>
> Later!
>
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> Stevan Hawkins
>
> San Antonio TX
>
> *****************************************************
>
> From: tony gallucci <hurricanetg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Subject: [texbirds] Re: We need a "bird of interest" program
>
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:44:12 -0600
>
>
>
>
>
> Just a note for those who are unaware. I have set up what amounts to a
Texas
> mega-rarity alert on Facebook. As things have gotten more crowded and more
> 'social' i found myself wading through tons of trivial chatty stuff, such
> that i began to not even click on listserv posts, some of which probably
had
> some really good info and sightings buried in them. And the facebook
forums
> had become coffee klatsch hatfield and mccoys (and i was guilty of being
on
> one side or the other all too often myself, to my frustration). So, to
have
> a way to wade through that stuff and get to the meat of things i started a
> new page just for birds that are reported from the Texas Review List or
not
> before reported or documented from Texas. I don't cotton to any chit chat
on
> there (i already booted two 'members who couldn't seem to grasp the
> difference between reporting important details and saying 'i can't wait to
> see you, how's your niece, i'll bring coffeecake and we can try to make
the
> pretty musco
>
> vies into torrent ducks'). Only posts that contain information about the
> finding and continued presence (including locations, brief discussions of
> provenance or ID, and posting of 'a' picture) are allowed. When you join
the
> group, you're required to read the rules on the 'about' page. Then set
your
> group settings to your desired notification level. You can set it so that
on
> each new post you receive an email (which serves as the 'alert' for those
of
> you who get email dings on your phones). Single individual birds are
> discussed only in the thread of the original post so you don't get
multiple
> emails about the same bird. UNLESS it's a bird you're interested in
> following its presence and whereabouts -- in that case, you simply 'like'
> that post and all subsequent comments in the thread will also send you an
> email. While we still have those occasional folks who just don't get it,
and
> send you multiple emails about nada, i am trying to ban them and hope that
> eventually you will on
>
> ly receive notes when it's relevant. We're pretty close now . . . The name
> of the group is Texas Chase Birds, it's only for those who want to chase,
or
> have an interest in the rarer of the rare in Texas . . . and, by the way,
it
> is NOT intended to replace any of the other pages, forums or listservs,
but
> to give a trustworthy notification system for those looking for that kind
of
> tool.
>
>
>
> Here's a direct link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TxChasers/
>
>
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>
> tony gallucci
>
> ingram/kerrville/hunt, texas
>
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