To all the diligent birders out there who are producing a torrent of
new and historical eBird data for west TN, thank you! Thanks
especially for the steady coverage this year in late summer moving in
to autumn, a season that has a particularly bad shortage of existing
eBird data for these areas. Many gaps are being filled in 2015, and
hopefully this will continue in future years.
Also, thanks for your patience as the screening filters for these
areas work up to speed. In the absence of prior data, the filters
were set very conservatively so that they can be tuned upwards as new
reports come in. It is much easier and more effective to set the
filters low and gradually bump them up, rather than setting them high
and then trying to figure out if they should be lowered. Rest assured
that I examine every single flagged report to assess whether the
filters should be adjusted to accommodate it. I am tweaking these
filters every few days in this busy season, and hopefully you will
notice fewer flags on not-really-high-counts and not-really-early-
dates as the season progresses.
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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