Last weekend we saw this handsome night-heron while kayaking. Not a bird I often see, as I don’t get out birding much. A friend of mine in University Park reported two in her suburban yard the same weekend — so now it is officially a trend.
Last post I pointed out that tagging was going to be most useful for helping novices with identification. The message for today is that it might not be worth logging every individual observation, but if someone notices an unusual trend maybe THAT should be flagged, and we can use blog sentiment analysis to detect it and let scientists know.