Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that posting bird sightings was completely voluntary.
I personally feel fortunate that someone takes the time and effort to share their sighting on any type of social media, but I don't feel they are obligated to do so. By posting someone's name in a childish attempt to coerce them to share information that you feel you or anyone else is entitled to IS in my opinion socially wrong. There has been, and always will be people and groups that do not share their birding sighting with the MOU-Listserv, simply because they don't want to. Trying to enforce some spurious social morality on people is going to alienate more people than engage them to share any information. Scott B. Meyer Hennepin County On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Michael Hendrickson < michaelleehendrick...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just noticed on the Minnesota Birding Facebook site that a birder named > Brian Plath spotted this warbler in his backyard today (no time given or > address) outside Austin, MN. A photo depicting the bird was attached to > the sighting. > > I am seeing a trend that many Minnesota birders who are not Facebook > members are not knowing about casual or accidental sightings that have > shown up in Minnesota. For example the Eurasian Tree Sparrow was posted > initially on Facebook another Facebook site then shared on the Minesota > Birding Facebook site. After 2-3 days this sighting eventually made to the > MOU newsletter. This is not the first time this has happen where I see a > significant sighting being posted on Minnesota Birding but it took 1-3 days > after the initial sighting, the sighting was shared to the MOU listserv. > > Hopefully the administrators of Minnesota Birding on Facebook can discuss > about sharing casual and accidental bird sightings in MN to the MOU > listserv on a timely basis. > > Has anyone else besides me notice this trend? Maybe it's not a big deal but > I thought I share this for discussion. > > Waiting for the warblers to arrive in Duluth. (-: > > Mike > > > -- > > *Mike Hendrickson* > > *Mike Hendrickson Guiding <http://mikehendricksonguiding.com>* > *Sax-Zim Bog <http://www.sax-zimbog.com>* > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
