WA WA

HO NEEDS TO RANT?

I do!!
 I have tried to charm my mental stress but lately the pile has grown out of  bounds...

What pile you ask?  The stuff gone wrong pile is the one Im referring to.  My Mom was always good to listen to me when I had to let off some steam about things  bugging me, and I did the same for her.   I got no one to hear me out so I will just put it in a post...I mean literally in the last 72 hrs sooooo many things have jumped up like a spitting python and got me square in the brain..

1.First lets go to Thursday afternoon...my son ran out of gas, I went to help and had to pull off the edge of the road, NOW I have a flat tire.  Probably a sharp object made a slow leak in my tire...Stress. NO good deed goes unpunished. 

2. I was doing him a favor he is trying to start a new job and his phone was destroyed when it fell out of the car side pocket and before he saw it he slammed the door on it,  and the whole screen cracked and then it got wet and now it's not readable.  So I ordered him a new phone.  It was shipped to arrive Aug 5th. 

 But it went to Florence a town 40 miles from here and its sitting in a Fed Ex warehouse, says its on a truck "out for delivery."..Thats been 72 hrs  ago...didn't get here on the 5th, as promised, not the 6th, and not today either the 7th...so I called twice, got a lady  could barely speak English and she said she is putting a tracker on it, IF I put" hold for pickup" then I have an 80 mile round trip drive and I have a flat tire and no tires shops are open in this town on weekends!! I pumped up the tire and will keep inflating it till Monday!  (I have a compressor) Yes we could go in his car but the  point is I paid to have it delivered....That hub has done this to me before when I had purchased a new window regulator...they put it on a shelf and said "they needed more info on the address." that was BS  they just didn't want to send a truck over here with only one box to deliver. 

STRESS

3. I put my camera  up for sale on Ebay, I don't like the Nikon I purchased...so it sold.  BUT since I last used Ebay they have unlinked my Paypal so I normally get my funds via Paypal, I had to put my banking info in there I don't like that and I have to wait till Aug 20th to get paid, soon as I do I will be deleting my bank info but that's 2 weeks.  More STRESS.

4. Back in May I heard a Sedge Wren in the new park I've been birding, some background:  this is a newly opened park where sewage ponds once were.  In my county there are about 4 active birders including me.  The other 3 bird in their own backyards and rarely go to other spots in the county so the county is very Under Birded mainly due to access, all private land. 
 So Im the only one who has been turning in lists to ebird for this park.  So I heard a Sedge Wren, put it on my list and I tried to get a recording of it since it never came out of the reeds to be photographed.  I used play back and  the wren answered it.  In my recording all you could  hear was some Red Winged Blackbirds, and mowers as the upkeep crew was mowing.  I got only one snip of the Wren at the very tail end of the recording and it's barely audible... but I put the audio up anyways...
SO  more back story...a new ebird reviewer took over the midland area of the state and he was pulling out lists from months back and asking for more info more details, photos, etc...Well trust me what I have has already been submitted.  The job of the reviewer is volunteer and its so they can keep data.  Okay I think ebird has taken it way to the extreme now a days  our Rare  lists are full of birds that are NOT rare they are trying to cubby hole birds into these time lines that are not realistic imho...birds are individuals...they can go where they please when they please...at the time I recorded the Wren it was NOT rare for that time of year. It was listed as rarely reported, like I said no one has been submitting reports, their algorithm is off. 

So they guy really started to get on my nerves, "are you sure it was 8 or maybe you just thought you saw 8 Kestrels?" Hell NO man I counted the  birds one by one there was 8. 

He is to confirm the sighting or not...I really don't care it's not important to me if it's confirmed...its only for my own list keeping.   I keep a list mainly to share with my sis who also is into birding and just as a hobby.  

SO when I submitted the audio of the wren back in May he questioned it, Not reported there before,..DUH no one had birded there but ME since it opened...he said all he could hear on that audio was Red Wing Blackbird so I said I will remove the audio, so I did.  BUT he wrote me again this was about the 10th email from this guy in like a months time...So I was annoyed with him to begin with.  He said "remove the Sedge Wren and add an Additional RWBL.

I am not in the habit of taking orders from anyone. I ignored his email and actually decided to block him...Aww bliss not having his demanding emails making me search my photos to see if I had pictures of a bird or anything else I tried to comply but honestly FUCK it..

So he could not email me anymore...but he figured out I had blocked his ebird email so he emailed me using HIS PERSONAL EMAIL account.  
He said I thought we had discussed this was a RWBB and I see you did not remove  it.  Good thing he was not in the room with me, he'd have a black eye about now.  He was not there he did NOT hear the bird, yet he wants me to LIE.  NO I won't do it...so I put that checklist as UNLISTED so he can no longer even see it.  And I told him "Please leave me alone." 
I can't be any more clear that that.  I went to ebird and submitted a ticket, meaning I have a problem....and I reported the guy.  I believe when someone blocks you from sending them emails from the organization they represent, to then GO and use their OWN email account to continue to harass is just damn mean and, an abuse of power going on.. I told ebird if he tried to contact me again I will report it and expect them to do SOMETHING about it, this is all voluntary.....HE can leave the sighting UNCONFIRMED that is all he has to do, but not good enough for him..I told ebird in my comment, he will do exactly what he wants to do regardless of what proof I could submit, what proof does  he have that the wren was not there?? IN all the surrounding counties the Sedge Wren was reported in MAY...IT only makes sense to me they are here too...why would they NOT come to the this county and yet to all the surrounding counties????
There is always A FIRST TIME for everything, did that ever occur to him that is the first TIME?? Like I said no one in this county even bothers to do ebird county wide Im the only one... up until 2 yrs ago we never had Scissor Tailed Flycatcher nesting in York county NOW they do...and We never had Limpkin nesting in the Low Country but now we do...and that same park,,,,there's never been Painted Buntings nesting but NOW THEY do I had photos of that or he would have been brow beating me over that.  

STRESS.

So this has been an especially hard 3 days for me, I need my mommy to talk to..

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