Dear Tweeters,
While browsing through some recent Skagit County checklists by various observers, I noticed one that sported a photograph of the habitat. This photo was not placed with a bird species from the eBird checklist. It was over on the left margin, below the site information.
I seem to remember that it was possible to include such photos at one time, several years ago, but I think that that feature has been taken away. Under the help menu, there is a page called "Photo Upload Guidelines," and this page expressly disallows scenery photos.
Now I see a checklist with such a photo, but I see no information on the eBird website telling about this feature, or how to use it. There is a hint about this, though. It appears to be possible to include a map of one's travel, using something called "eBird Mobile Tracks." The checklist that I saw, however, showed just a habitat photo, not a map. Under the habitat photo, there is a caption reading "submitted from eBird from iOS version 2.0.122." That makes me wonder whether there is some feature available to mobile app users, which is not available to users who enter data on a computer at home. While searching around in eBird's help menu and their news menu, I did come upon a page that showed a habitat photo, but I can't get back to that page--I didn't bookmark it.
Any clarification on this point would be welcomed.
Yours truly,
Gary Bletsch

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