Remote birding If the bird is there, there it is. No matter how it is detected.
How that knowledge is used is a different matter. eBird even has a category for accepting records derived from night calls monitored by digital recording devices and introduced by later downloads into the database. But a bird viewed at a feeder cam isn't acceptable. I can understand that we don't want several hundred reports of the same vagrant at a feeder entered into the data. But at least one entry ought to be acceptable. All the other duplicates (except perhaps for subsequent dates ) could be disregarded. But, wait. Don't we accept dozens of reports of the same rarity reported by many observers at a stakeout? This is how programmers earn their keep. Rich Guthrie New Baltimore, The Greene County, New York On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:10 PM <gle...@verizon.net> wrote: > Steve Walter’s spoonbill post got me thinking. > > > > Occasionally, when I’m bored at work, I’ll turn on the live East Hampton > Beach Cam just to see what I can see. Surf, weather, birds, etc. > > > > I’ve been able to identify things like Barn Swallow, Sanderling, even LBB > Gull. Would these count for Suffolk? > > > > With binoculars, light is bent through the lens arrangement to focus on > your retinas. > > > > With the webcam, light is focused onto a CMOS chip, converted to zeros and > ones, beamed to a satellite, beamed back to my computer, and then focused > on my retinas. > > Same thing, right? The time difference between the two is negligible. > > > > I know, I know, it’s not the same. But it is “live” in the sense of time, > and very real. (Not like that great Tom Brady video this week of him > playing catch with a football passing machine). > > > > What if I happen to see a Yellow-nosed Albatross cruise across my monitor > one day? Can I count it and, better yet, should I even report it….. > > > > The problems of the modern age. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > *NYSbirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > ABA <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> > *Please submit your observations to **eBird* > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>*!* > -- > -- Richard Guthrie -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
