I was going to add that about Kipp not being an actual island anymore, but i was already being chatty enuf!
Donna Scott Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2017, at 6:28 PM, Donna Lee Scott <d...@cornell.edu<mailto:d...@cornell.edu>> wrote: As others on this bird list have pointed out in the past, it would be helpful to all listers if people who provide a bird alert would take an extra minute to write briefly the route # or street name & approximate location, if possible. If one is already taking time to alert people, why not give enuf info so people know where bird actually is? "Ruff at 'Kipp I. South' off NYS Rt. 90 next to south side of Thruway between US Rt. 20 & village of Montezuma" , for instance. Two cents from a retired dispenser of all sorts of info from Cornell Cooperative Extension. Donna Scott Who bought a smart phone so she could get bird apps , but hasn't learned enuf about what else phone can do, OR about eBird use. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2017, at 4:47 PM, Jody Enck <jodye...@gmail.com<mailto:jodye...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Dave and all, thanks for the info, but I do not have a smart phone. My little trac-fone does not even save phone numbers. I can reply to text message I receive from RBA, but I have no GPS on it. And, I cannot access eBird on it. Please remember that more than half (52% according to most recent research I have seen) of ebird users (much higher for birders in general) still do not have a smart phone. Also, just so everyone knows how mysterious the location is -- I stopped at the Montezuma village post office and the town office building, and nobody at either location had ever heard of it. Sorry to all for clogging the RBA with questions about where the location was, but what good is an RBA if the majority of the people who might be interested in seeing a bird have no idea where the location is? Seems to me that asking for a location is a legitimate follow-up use of the RBA text system. But that is just my opinion. Thanks for providing some help, but please don't assume that we can't find locations because we don't use eBird. I enter all my sightings from my laptop at home. take care, Jody On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 3:00 PM, David Nicosia <daven102...@gmail.com<mailto:daven102...@gmail.com>> wrote: If you use ebird, they have maps and locations in a format that you can zoom in so far to see exactly where the bird of interest is. I never even heard of Kipps Island before but I found the hotspot on ebird and it was very easy to find. Often, if a bird is not seen in a hotspot, a "stakeout" hotspot is created, like the one for the Dickcissel on Kingdom Road for example in Seneca Falls. I highly recommend folks learn and use ebird. Makes life very easy when chasing rare birds reported by others... Dave Nicosia -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
