Date: 10/21/26 6:20 am From: Andy Martin <apmartin2...> Subject: Re: [MDBirding] New eBird Hotspot Editor on the job
Yes Mike, I second Jim's thoughts, a huge thank you!
Andy Martin
Gaithersburg
On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM Jim Nelson <jim.nelson.tax.aide...>
wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Thanks so much for your many years of service as the
> HotSpotReviewer/Editor. This is one of the many important but time
> consuming and underappreciated roles that birders take on voluntarily and
> uncompensated to make eBird so useful, functional, and fun!
>
> Welcome to Duncan Bishop. Thank you for taking on this role.
>
> Jim Nelson
> Bethesda, MD
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 11:34 AM 'Mike Bowen' via Maryland & DC Birding <
> <mdbirding...> wrote:
>
>> Many DC and Maryland eBirders know that I have been fielding
>> recommendations for new eBird Hotspots in the State of Maryland and the
>> District of Columbia for more than 15 years now, during which time the
>> number of Hotspots in both places has ballooned considerably -- over 2000
>> in Maryland and more than 150 in the District of Columbia.
>>
>> I am happy to announce that a new Hotspot Reviewer/Editor has just taken
>> over: please welcome DC birder Duncan Bishop (<duncanbishop1...>),
>> who will be considering suggestions for new Hotspots in Maryland and DC and
>> for renaming or repositioning of existing Hotspots, effective immediately.
>> Indeed, he has already started.
>>
>> Duncan was one of the birder volunteers who assisted Ken Ostermiller, a
>> former eBird Hotspot Editor for Ohio, to develop the *Birding Hotspots*
>> web site that formed the basis for the relatively new "*Hotspot About*"
>> pages introduced to eBird earlier this year. (More about "About" pages in
>> a later post.)
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Duncan to this demanding volunteer job and in
>> thanking Mike Ostrowski, former active Maryland birder, who has been my
>> principal backup as Hotspot Reviewer/Editor, despite moving from Maryland
>> to Arizona a few years ago.
>>
>> Mike Bowen
>> Bethesda
>>
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