[NatureNS] Backyard bird count? (Correction of Typo)

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:02:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Suzanne Borkowski <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca>
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Please excuse the typo:

First line should read:

It's been explained to me (.......) that communities get entered by submitting a checklist.

Cheers;
Suzanne




--- On Sun, 2/20/11, Suzanne Borkowski <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> From: Suzanne Borkowski <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca>
> Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Backyard bird count?
> To: "NatureNS List" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>, "Great Backyard Bird Count" <gbbc@cornell.edu>, "Jeannie Shermerhorn" <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca>, "David Christie" <maryspt@nbnet.nb.ca>, "Wayne P. Neily" <neilyornis@hotmail.com>
> Received: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 5:48 PM
> Hi Wayne;
>  
> I'm right on top of this.  
>  
> It's been explained to me (since I have sent in this exact
> observation before) that until that communities get entered
> by submitting a checklist.  So, as soon as one is entered
> by postal code, it goes into their database.
>  
> Since their system covers all of North America, you can 
> 
> --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Wayne P. Neily <neilyornis@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Wayne P. Neily <neilyornis@hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Backyard bird count?
> To: "NatureNS List" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>,
> "Great Backyard Bird Count" <gbbc@cornell.edu>,
> "Jeannie Shermerhorn" <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca>,
> "David Christie" <maryspt@nbnet.nb.ca>,
> "Suzanne M. Borkowski" <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca>
> Received: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 5:35 PM
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
>     This is one of the main aspects of the GBBC that
> really ticks off a lot of people who live in small
> communities.  We have enough trouble maintaining community
> identities as schools, churches, and local post offices all
> fall victim to the "bigger is better" mentality.  There is
> no apparent reason why the GBBC could not accept the names
> of all communities, just as eBird does, perhaps
> requiring geographic co-ordinates and county the first
> time that one is entered.  Instead, when we enter a name,
> we get the "There is no record of that locale in our
> database", and we are required to enter a postal code or
> location that, as David notes, may be as much as 50km
> away.  This results in such ludicrous reports as Common
> Eider at Middleton or Aylesford.  Unfortunately, the civic
> street numbering has not helped in Nova Scotia,  Postal
> codes for most P. O.'s have not been subdivided, and, where
>  they have, it is usually by delivery route, not local
> community, and any one of these may still cover 50km or
> more.  Psychologically, it has gotten worse in recent
> years, because of Post Office policies requiring us to
> include our street address with the community name where the
> P. O. is located, as though that town had just annexed all
> the surrounding communities (e.g., 562 Messenger Rd.,
> Kingston).  I realize that GBBC has nothing to do with
> that, but it increases the irritation effect of every other
> attempt to suppress local names.
>  
>    I hope that the reviewers and anyone else who cares
> about accurate data or identities of small communities will
> encourage Pat Leonard and the GBBC crew to change this
> restrictive policy of locality data entry.
>  
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Wayne P. Neily
> 562 Messenger Rd.,  
> Tremont, Kings Co., Nova Scotia
> 
>  "Go forth, under the open sky, and list 
> To Nature's teachings." - William Cullen Bryant, 1817
> [Thanatopsis]. 
> 
>  
> > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:22:07 -0800
> > From: suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca
> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Backyard bird count?
> > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> > 
> > Hi Jeannie;
> > 
> > David Christie's answer is correct. If you're town or
> community isn't listed, and if it doesn't come up when you
> enter it on the page "Submit Your Checklist" - then use your
> postal code only. Leave the community space blank.
> > 
> > If you're entering sightings for another area, and
> that doesn't come up, enter a postal code of a house or
> business that is close to where you saw birds.
> > 
> > If you have any other questions, just contact me at:
> > 
> > suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca
> > 
> > or phone me at: 445-2922
> > 
> > Thanks for
>  participating!
> > 
> > Suzanne Borkowski
> > GBBC Reviewer
> > Nova Scotia
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Sun, 2/20/11, David Christie <maryspt@nbnet.nb.ca>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: David Christie <maryspt@nbnet.nb.ca>
> > > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Backyard bird count?
> > > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca,
> jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca
> > > Received: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 9:24 AM
> > > At 8:23 PM -0400 2/19/11, <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > It won't work for me,The nearest place that I can
> get to
> > > come up is Port Hawkesbury and I'm in Cape
> George
> > > CB,NS.Which is(if you are familiar with the
> area) 
> > > about 14 km west of St.Peter's.
> > > Jeannie Shermerhorn
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Jeannie,
> > > 
> > > If Cape George isn't in the
>  location database for the Great
> > > Backyard Bird Count, you probably will have to be
> content
> > > entering your rural route postal code which will
> be recorded
> > > in a manner such as "B0A 1A0
> town-where-the-route-starts."
> > > In your case, I presume, that may be Port
> Hawkesbury. This
> > > is not very precise because rural routes may be
> up to 50 or
> > > more km long, but for mapping purposes it does
> place the
> > > observations you report in the right district of
> Nova
> > > Scotia.
> > > 
> > > Rural areas that have switched to civic number
> addressing
> > > do not have this problem, because Canada Post
> then assigns
> > > codes tied to their local communities.
> > > 
> > > Good luck with your observations,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > David Christie
> > > 
> > > Harvey, Albert Co., NB  E4H 2M9
> > >
>  (formerly  Albert, NB  E0A 1A0)
> > > http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/maryspt
> > > 
> 
> 
> 


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