Good info, Ian.  I particularly like your comments collection!  I'll go for the one 'birding with David Sibley!'   Just to illustrate how comments in ebird can be viewed by all, I have attached today's entry about the redpolls and emailed myself a copy - now forwarded to the list.   ruth stewarte dorset  > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:18:42 -0500
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> Subject: eBird Report - My yard birds, Jan 18, 2013
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> My yard birds, Bennington, US-VT
> Jan 18, 2013
> Protocol: Incidental
> 1 species
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> Common Redpoll  36     3rd day in a row that large numbers have come to feeders. 9 degrees at 8am.
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> View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S12646505
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> This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt)