Date: 8/6/25 12:36 pm From: Harry LeGrand (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Reminder: Summer season reports for Chat Briefs
Fellow birders,
Now that the Summer (Breeding) Season is over (June-July), as *The Chat'*s Briefs for the Files editor I would like to hear from any of you who have not posted important records for the season already on eBird. The great majority of the Briefs over the past decade have come from the editor perusing the eBird database, species by species, and picking out the most signficant reports. This is tedious, but I need to wait for a few more days to start so that any and all rarity sightings (as seen on the Carolina Bird Club Sightings page) have hopefully been approved as valid. For this short 2-month season, I will spend much time going to the North Carolina Bird Atlas website, to check out important records, especially confirmed nestings, to add to the Summer Briefs. But, *a few of you might have some important records that were not on eBird, so please let me know what notable birds you saw or what notable increases or decreases in breeding species populations you might have noticed. *
One feature of this summer season was the good to relatively good rainfall in most places -- sadly including floods -- though that meant most reservoirs were full and very few lake and pond margins contained mudflats. Thus, notable shorebirds in early fall migration, plus notable numbers of post-breeding waders, found little suitable habitat inland.
I'd like to hear from folks by August 25. *Again, almost all of you submit eBird reports, so those data are already available to me.* Thanks for posting such records!
Harry LeGrand, Briefs for the Files editor Raleigh
