Date: 7/17/26 5:34 pm From: Harry LeGrand (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: What is going on with the CBC Sightings and the eBird listings? Error messages the last three days
Thanks for working on this mess and getting it fixed. Even though this is a
slow time of the year for rarities in the Carolinas, the weekend is
coming up and more folks will brave the heat to try to find some truly
red-letter birds.
Harry LeGrand
On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 7:34 PM Derb Carter <dcarter...> wrote:
> I just asked AI how to correct the problem with the CBC sightings page and
> it said ask Kent Fiala.
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> Derb Carter
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> *From:* <carolinabirds-request...> <carolinabirds-request...> *On
> Behalf Of *Kent Fiala
> *Sent:* Friday, July 17, 2026 7:27 PM
> *To:* Harry LeGrand <hlegrandjr...>; carolinabirds listserve <
> <carolinabirds...>
> *Subject:* Re: What is going on with the CBC Sightings and the eBird
> listings? Error messages the last three days
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> The sightings page is working again. There are some other places that have
> the same problem and I'll track them down as I can.
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> Kent Fiala
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> On 7/17/2026 6:22 PM, Kent Fiala wrote:
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> Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've been uncharacteristically
> remiss about keeping software up to date, and we've reached a state where
> Cornell has switched to new software that won't talk to my old software.
> It's not an easy fix, but I'm on it.
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> For the record, I would never have figured this out without AI. I'm a
> believer.
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> Kent Fiala
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> On 7/17/2026 4:29 PM, Harry LeGrand wrote:
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> Many or most of us are probably seeing the error notice on Carolina Bird
> Club Sightings -- off and on - for a few days now - saying this:
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> Sorry, an error occurred while connecting to eBird: Peer's Certificate
> issuer is not recognized. (Error 60). eBird may be down.
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> No reports
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> Sometimes JUST NC reports are blocked out, and sometimes SC are blocked;
> sometimes BOTH are blocked out, and sometimes both show! Sometimes it
> shows JUST on our iPhone, but more worrisome, they often show on our
> computers -- when *every other* CBC website link is fine and all other of
> my website links are fine. So, the error is not with my equipment. A friend
> posted the same thing to me this morning.
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> I Googled "Peer's Certificate" and it is certainly there with a lot of
> detailed info about it. Over my head!
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> Is this an eBird error? A Carolina Bird Club program error? Kent -- any
> ideas, and when this might be resolved? Often, things SEEM to be OK the
> next hour, but then the error message comes back.
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> Harry LeGrand
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> Raleigh
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