Clip Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 Check out this rare bird alert for Brevard County, Florida: https://ebird.org/alert/summary?sid=SN35606 Pay special attention to the reports for the Common Eider. Note all the several days old unconfirmed that have photos. Many are good photos. Then check out the only one dated Feb. 5 2022. Note it has been marked confirmed. Then look at the description. Then consider my husband and I were there on the Feb. 5 2022. Our checklist shows we were there for 2 1/2 hours. We ate lunch there and looked out over the water way where the bird had been seen, off list. We birded the area again without starting a new list. We did NOT find the Eider. I'm 95% certain that the Eider was not there on the 5th. Even my easy going husband's response to this was "that's just BS". He didn't use the abbreviation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Sure looks like the guy on the 5th put a lot of effort into his rarity finding and description (not). Kinda weird the ones with photos aren’t confirmed before this one. One thing that might be happening is the reviewer knows this guy, sees his name, and clicked confirm. I dunno. Maybe he didn’t have time to confirm the others. The description put down on Feb 5 sure doesn’t rule out literally every other duck in Florida though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 32 minutes ago, Birding Boy said: Sure looks like the guy on the 5th put a lot of effort into his rarity finding and description (not). Kinda weird the ones with photos aren’t confirmed before this one. One thing that might be happening is the reviewer knows this guy, sees his name, and clicked confirm. I dunno. Maybe he didn’t have time to confirm the others. The description put down on Feb 5 sure doesn’t rule out literally every other duck in Florida though. Plus I am more than reasonably sure the Eider was not there on the 5th. There were a couple of other birders there also that thought a Northern Gannet was the Eider but they must have eventually decided it wasn't because they did not report seeing it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 At 54:20 this reviewer walks through the review process. I noticed one of the entries shows deferred. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 25 minutes ago, chipperatl said: At 54:20 this reviewer walks through the review process. I noticed one of the entries shows deferred. It is too bad he doesn't go into what deferred means. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 31 minutes ago, Clip said: It is too bad he doesn't go into what deferred means. My assumption is that is the sightings that disappear from Rare bird alerts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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