[ucbnet] Email from the Monthly UCB meeting

[Milt Moody]

In part of the Utah County Birders Meeting we demonstrated how you can add links to your posts to the listservs.  Here's a link to instructions on the things that were covered in that part of the program for those interested:
http://www.utahbirds.org/connections/EmailTips.html 

(I thought those in attendance might like to see how this links came through -- they were sent to my personal email -- I've added a little extra verbage).

The first link we made was to the ABA birding ethics page:
http://www.audubon.org/bird/at_home/bird_watching/basics_etiquette.shtml

The next one was to directions on how to get to River Lane:
http://utahbirds.org/counties/utahco/SandyBeach.htm

The third one was to a picture of a Juvenile Spotted Towhee that was taken by Michelle Soper McDaniels:
http://utahbirds.org/birdsofutah/BirdsS-Z_2/SpottedTowheeMNS1.jpg

And an attempt to send a link to a YouTube video brought up this page -- on the BYU computer -- it was of a Spotted Towhee bathing (sounds at least "R" to me):
http://euphrates.byu.edu/controlcenter/rcgi-bin/block.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOB59B37rKXw&ip=10.22.21.3&cats=Custom%20Block%20List&username=&zone=268&replycode=globalblock&time=1239326503&digest=2c03b63bd11ccb2bfce2acbe78f55c5363126d90

We also forwarded a sample eBird report that was originially submitted by Jeff Bilski:

Location:     My house
Observation date:     4/7/09
Number of species:     15

Turkey Vulture     3
American Kestrel     1
Mourning Dove     2
Downy Woodpecker     1
Western Scrub-Jay     1
American Crow     3
Black-capped Chickadee     1
American Robin     3
European Starling     5
Dark-eyed Junco (Gray-headed)     1
Cassin's Finch     7
House Finch     12
Red Crossbill     11
Pine Siskin     35
American Goldfinch     5

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Thanks also to Tom Williams who talked about eBird and to Alton Thygerson who talked about arranging out-of-state and international birding trips.

Greetings to all,
Milt