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Best Practices for Use
Dear all: I borrowed this sticky post from the Santa Barbara listserv and it explains some best practices for managing your centralvalleybirds.groups.io account. The groups.io system is much more powe
Dear all: I borrowed this sticky post from the Santa Barbara listserv and it explains some best practices for managing your centralvalleybirds.groups.io account. The groups.io system is much more powerful than the old Yahoo one, and tweaking your settings can make things much easier for you and for the moderators of the group. As the need the arises I will update this post. It is a "sticky", which means that it will always appear at the top of the posts, making it easier to find. Comments and questions about the information below are welcome. Thanks --Cliff Accessing your groups.io account At groups.io your account name is your email address. One account can be a member of several groups. To go to your account settings, do the following: Using a browser go to https://groups.io If you are already logged in, your name should appear in the upper right corner. If not: select "Login In" and complete the log in procedure You should now see a screen listing all your group subscriptions. If you want to go to your account settings, select your name in the top right corner and select "Account". This should get you to a new page about your email, password, et cetera. Adding automatic signature Your posts to centralvalleybirds are required to have a signature with your full name and place of residence. That way we have a proper record of who reported what when. It also enables future readers to contact you about your post if need be. Here's how you can set up your groups.io account to automatically attach a signature so that you can forget about this. Go to your groups subscriptions as explained in Steps 1-3 above and select centralvalleybirds At the top of the left column, select "Subscriptions" Scroll to the block "Signature" and select both "Use Signature For Web Posting" and "Use Signature for Email Posting" Enter your personal signature in the box below that Scroll down and hit the blue "Save" button And you're done. From now on, any post by you will automatically have the signature. Changing your email address To change the email address that you use to post to groups.io do not create a new account. Instead use the following steps. Go to your account settings as explained in Steps 1-4 above. In the left column select "Login". Use the "Change Email" button to update your email address. This way your old posts will remain associated with your new address. If, instead, you create a whole new account for your new address, there is no connection between your old posts and your new address: it's as if there are two "You"s on groups.io. Merging two accounts (yes this can be done) Sometimes people end up with more than one account that they should merge into one. To merge account@old into account@new, do the following. Go to to your account@old settings as explained in Steps 1-4 above. Change the account@old email address into account@new and following the subsequent instructions. Now all your @old posts will have moved to your account@new, and the account@old will have been removed. Using several email addresses and one account Some of us want to be able to post using different email addresses. Say that your groups.io account uses the address birder@gmail but you want also to be able to post using your other address worker@work. This does not require two separate accounts; instead do the following. Go to you birder@gmail account settings as explained in Steps 1-4 above. In the left column select "Login". At the bottom of the page, select "Advanced Settings for Email Aliases" Enter your worker@work address and select "+ Add Email Alias" Now if you post from your worker@work address groups.io will recognize that this address is an alias for birder@gmail and things will go through. If you have not set up an alias, groups.io will bounce your post as it does not recognize your address (unless you have another account for worker@work in which case: please merge your accounts). The issue of having more than one account versus one account with several email addresses can be confusing. Let me know if you want help with this. -- Cliff Hawley S
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Cosumnes the last three days
Dear Birders, This morning I did the monthly bird survey on the Lost Slough route. I turned up 77 species, a tally a bit poorer than average for the date and conditions. I turned up nothing really not
Dear Birders, This morning I did the monthly bird survey on the Lost Slough route. I turned up 77 species, a tally a bit poorer than average for the date and conditions. I turned up nothing really not
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By Glennah Trochet
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Sacramento county Red-naped Sapsucker continues
Hey all, Just wanted to give a heads up that Max Brodie and I refound the male Red-naped Sapsucker that was first found in early February by Gavin Stacey at Rollingwood Bluffs. It was seen here along
Hey all, Just wanted to give a heads up that Max Brodie and I refound the male Red-naped Sapsucker that was first found in early February by Gavin Stacey at Rollingwood Bluffs. It was seen here along
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By Emmett Iverson
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recent bird observations at the Cosumnes River Preserve
Dear Birders, I've been out almost daily the last week or so. Friday the 26th of February I visited behind the Farm Center gate, where it was 22 degrees F. predawn at the Accidental Forest. Water had
Dear Birders, I've been out almost daily the last week or so. Friday the 26th of February I visited behind the Farm Center gate, where it was 22 degrees F. predawn at the Accidental Forest. Water had
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By Glennah Trochet
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spring arrival
Today, March 2, the first spring migration Rufous Hummingbird, an adult male, arrived in my garden and promptly took over one of my feeders from the resident Anna’s hummers that had shared it througho
Today, March 2, the first spring migration Rufous Hummingbird, an adult male, arrived in my garden and promptly took over one of my feeders from the resident Anna’s hummers that had shared it througho
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By kuschmanfred
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Mountain Plovers in Yolo County, not Colusa
It has been a long day of driving and somehow my mind became confused. The Mountain Plovers were in Yolo County, south of County Line Road. Sorry. Rosita and I even joked about the line and which coun
It has been a long day of driving and somehow my mind became confused. The Mountain Plovers were in Yolo County, south of County Line Road. Sorry. Rosita and I even joked about the line and which coun
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By rosita94598
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Mountain Plovers in Colusa County today March 2
My wife, Rosita, and I drove north today looking for a few specialties. On Hwy 45 1-1/2 miles south of County Line Road, we had Mountain Plovers on both sides of the road. They were especially visible
My wife, Rosita, and I drove north today looking for a few specialties. On Hwy 45 1-1/2 miles south of County Line Road, we had Mountain Plovers on both sides of the road. They were especially visible
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By rosita94598
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hybrid Greater White-fronted x Cackling Goose (?) CR 103 Pond 2 messages
Hi all, Today, March 1, David and I discovered a hybrid goose today in the field adjacent to the County Road 103 pond (close to intersection with 28H) It was mixed in with a flock of Greater White-fro
Hi all, Today, March 1, David and I discovered a hybrid goose today in the field adjacent to the County Road 103 pond (close to intersection with 28H) It was mixed in with a flock of Greater White-fro
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By Denise and David Hamilton
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Volunteer Bird Surveyors Request
Hi, The Southern Sierra Research Station is looking for 1-2 volunteers to assist with avian point count surveys in Walker Basin/Caliente, Kern County, CA. Exact survey dates have not been decided yet,
Hi, The Southern Sierra Research Station is looking for 1-2 volunteers to assist with avian point count surveys in Walker Basin/Caliente, Kern County, CA. Exact survey dates have not been decided yet,
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By Bob Barnes
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Harris’s Sparrow Putah Creek
The Harris’s Sparrow found by Kathy Blankenship on 2/22 continued this morning near where it was originally found. This morning it was on the west side of Hopkins Road in the field at the end of the r
The Harris’s Sparrow found by Kathy Blankenship on 2/22 continued this morning near where it was originally found. This morning it was on the west side of Hopkins Road in the field at the end of the r
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By Adam Panto
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Western Gull in Butte Co.
Hi all, I just wanted to mention, there is a Western Gull at Thermalito Afterbay in Butte County. Liam Huber found it this past Saturday on “gull island” just north of the causeway. I found it today,
Hi all, I just wanted to mention, there is a Western Gull at Thermalito Afterbay in Butte County. Liam Huber found it this past Saturday on “gull island” just north of the causeway. I found it today,
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By Brewbird
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Harris’s Sparrow at Putah Creek
Hi Everyone, As I arrived at the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve this morning I found a Harris’s Sparrow associating with a flock of White Crowns near the parking area on Levee Road and Hopkins. The floc
Hi Everyone, As I arrived at the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve this morning I found a Harris’s Sparrow associating with a flock of White Crowns near the parking area on Levee Road and Hopkins. The floc
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By Kathy Blankenship
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recent birds at the Cosumnes River Preserve
Dear Birders, In the past week I've made a few visits behind locked gates at the Cosumnes River Preserve. If you hope to visit soon, you should plan to arrive for the early waterfowl fly-out well befo
Dear Birders, In the past week I've made a few visits behind locked gates at the Cosumnes River Preserve. If you hope to visit soon, you should plan to arrive for the early waterfowl fly-out well befo
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By Glennah Trochet
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White-winged Scoters
The White-winged Scoter pair is back, in the cove east of the new spillway now. Accessed from Folsom Point SRA. Rich Howard Carmichael, CA
The White-winged Scoter pair is back, in the cove east of the new spillway now. Accessed from Folsom Point SRA. Rich Howard Carmichael, CA
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By Rich Howard
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Free netting for blind
I have two large pieces of netting from army tents that I thought I might use for a temporary blind. It's kind of see through, but I think it would break up visibility of the occupant. Preference woul
I have two large pieces of netting from army tents that I thought I might use for a temporary blind. It's kind of see through, but I think it would break up visibility of the occupant. Preference woul
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By Larry Montgomery
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Possible Dilute Plumage California Towhee at William B. Pond Rec Area Carmichael
This afternoon about 4 pm I saw a very light bird shaped, sized and with behavior exactly like a California Towhee, foraging very close to a normally colored California Towhee. After checking books wh
This afternoon about 4 pm I saw a very light bird shaped, sized and with behavior exactly like a California Towhee, foraging very close to a normally colored California Towhee. After checking books wh
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By Katharine Wagner
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interesting yellow-rumped warbler yesterday
Dear Birders, In the last two or three weeks, yellow-rumped warblers have become much more numerous around the Tall Forest at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County. A few are alrea
Dear Birders, In the last two or three weeks, yellow-rumped warblers have become much more numerous around the Tall Forest at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County. A few are alrea
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By Glennah Trochet
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Cosumnes birds of modest note in the last week or so
Dear Birders, Last Friday the 5th I got a chance to visit Howard Ranch in far southeastern Sacramento County. The exhausting day's highlights were two bobcats. The second had coloring that endorsed as
Dear Birders, Last Friday the 5th I got a chance to visit Howard Ranch in far southeastern Sacramento County. The exhausting day's highlights were two bobcats. The second had coloring that endorsed as
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By Glennah Trochet
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Sage Thrasher continues Merced NWR
Sal Salerno is having trouble posting in the field so he called me to post for him. The SAGE THRASHER found two days ago continues at Merced NWR. Sal found it perched up on a sign in the entrance park
Sal Salerno is having trouble posting in the field so he called me to post for him. The SAGE THRASHER found two days ago continues at Merced NWR. Sal found it perched up on a sign in the entrance park
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By Daniel Gilman
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Both Lesser Black-backed Gulls still at Yolo County Landfill pond
At the Yolo County landfill pond at 12 noon today both the adult Lesser Black-backed Gull reported by Steve Hampton and others and the first-cycle immature Lesser Black-backed Gull reported by Lucas C
At the Yolo County landfill pond at 12 noon today both the adult Lesser Black-backed Gull reported by Steve Hampton and others and the first-cycle immature Lesser Black-backed Gull reported by Lucas C
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By Chris Dunford
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