Thanks, Ted, very helpful. I like this example of a web link to a map better than latitude and longitude as I am probably a visual learner, aka drooling idiot. I once went to Boulder Reservoir to find a bird you referenced with latitude and longitude. I thought I knew the place in question, but my GPS device was confused by minutes and seconds versus decimals. Oy vey! Keep those map links coming, easier than lat & long. How to make a map with a place mark and share it with others? http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68480 Thanks, Tom Wilberding
On Dec 5, 3:34 pm, Ted Floyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Birders. > > Not an earthshattering rarity, but I saw a Northern Shrike at Greenlee > Preserve, Boulder County, yesterday afternoon, Friday, Dec. 4th. > > Now, every once in a while, I get asked the age-old question, "Where's that?" > Or, "Okay, I know where Greenlee Preserve is, but where, more or less, was > the bird?" > > Well, with Google Maps, you can show the exact location of the bird. It's > this simple: > > http://tiny.cc/4wxmc > > The blue stickpin indicates the small tree the bird was perched on. > > For a small and fairly familiar site like Greenlee, you could probably get > away with "From Denver, travel west on U.S. 36 to the second exit for U.S. > 287, go north on U.S. 287, [blah, blah, blah, lots of steps deleted], park > your car, walk east then south along the unmarked trail for about 200 feet, > bear right at the fork in the trail, proceed straight at the four-way > inters..." Puh-leeze. That is so 2004. It's 2009, almost 2010. And if you're > trying to describe a bird somewhere around John Martin Reservoir or the San > Luis Hills, fuhgeddaboudit. > > It's so easy just to say: Northern Shrike,http://tiny.cc/4wxmc > > (Same thing can be accomplished with latitude and longitude; this is my olive > branch to those who are "visual learners.") > > ------------------------------- > > Ted Floyd > Editor, Birding > > Check out Birding magazine on Twitter:http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine > > ------------------------------- > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Hotmail gives you a free,exclusive > gift.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.... -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en
