Posted by Trey Mitchell on January 01, 1970 at 00:00:00
Jeanne Kaufmam is a great birder, photographer and a friend. I had no way to know she saw a Northern Pintail at Cutler Wetland. That's one of the problems with eBird in my opinion. It's great to record observations there, but the think people are notified when you see something just isn't going to happen regularly. I would have thought a Northern Pintail would show up in the list of notable observations. I check that every day on the BirdADay.net website. After your post I went back and looked at that day of notable bird and Northern Pintail wasn't there. So I'm sorry for not giving the credit to Jeanne, but I had no way to know she saw the bird. She wasn't aware that a Pintail was something good to see at Cutler Wetland. Only a few have been seen there and as far as I know they are uncommon in Miami-Dade county. At least that is my perception.