Dear Rick I find your tone patronizing and discouraging to birders who might have recently found something that is interesting to them and may want to share it with this community. With all the threats that birds face they need all the friends they can get, and attitudes like the one you have just displayed turn vast numbers of people off birding and getting involved in conservation.
The subject line was clear, and you could simply have deleted the mail if you didn't want to read it rather than post this unfriendly response that makes you - and Linda - come across as a sad old grouches with nothing better to do than inflict your bad day on the rest of us. Your email radiates insecurity and an attendant need to be rude that is very unappealing. I think an apology to Andrew and to the rest of us who had to read your email is in order. Yours in birding Adam Welz PS: Andrew, some of us know that seemingly trivial observations of unusual behavior by common birds are often the gateways to understanding changes in ecosystems, and can be significant when noted and integrated into larger databases. Did you submit your hummer observation to eBird? ________________________________ From: Rick & Linda Kedenburg <kedenb...@optonline.net> To: Andrew Block <ablock22...@yahoo.com> Cc: NYS Birds <NYSbirds-L@cornell.edu> Sent: Sat, 11 June, 2011 10:06:47 Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] hummer at feeder We don't find this interesting or unusual. Linda & I have feeders here on the North Fork of LI and get breeding RT Hummingbirds every year that nest nearby. We also get them at our feeders in Vermont. If you have seen a rarity I would be interested in seeing it in my INBOX. There are many breeding RT Hummingbirds throughout the State of NY and New England. Thank you Andrew but let's maintain a brevity by limiting our reporting to facts that are interesting to us all. Regards, Rick On Jun 10, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Andrew Block wrote: For the second time in three days I had a female Ruby-throated Hummingbird join the male Baltimore Oriole and catbirds at the feeders. I was very surprised since they don't breed around where I live and they should've been through by now. I guess it's just a late migrant north. Pretty neat. Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist/Wildlife Biologist 37 Tanglewylde Avenue Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131 Phone: 914-337-1229; Fax: 914-771-8036 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- Rick & Linda Kedenburg kedenb...@optonline.net -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
