Re: [Maine-birds] July Horned Lark still unconfirmed in eBird

Hi Janet and Gary,

Spurred by your prompt, I looked up your report and validated the Horned Grebe record. Great photo of the grebe in company with a Common Eider!... I hope you don't mind that I'm sharing the link here.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/gary_leavens/9429254616/

Both Horned and Red-necked Grebes occasionally summer in Maine but do not breed in the state.

Sorry for the delay.  We three Maine eBird reviewers DO get distracted by birds and other things, but we try to keep the backlog of reviews to manageable level.  Recently imports of some historical data have raised the queue to over 16,000 records that need review here in Maine!  Please bear with us.

Good birding.

Bill Sheehan

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Janet Leavens <janet.leavens1@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

 

My husband and I spent a week birding on MDI at the end of July, and, as usual, we eBirded our sightings. Today, for some reason, I remembered that we had a breeding plumage Horned Grebe at Sand Beach -- probably the most surprising sighting of our trip. The bird was swimming quite close to shore, we got greats looks and photos (one of which we included in our eBird report.) I checked out the Ebird map today and saw that the sighting was still unconfirmed, although there was another confirmed sighting of a similar Horned Grebe (the same bird?) a day or two earlier. I realize that eBird reviewers are busy, have lives, etc. But still, I was wondering what was up with that.

 

Anyone know?

 

Thanks,

 

Janet Leavens

Oviedo, FL

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