Am experimenting with a Twitter pop-up on the Blog.. Looks quite powerful for entering info via SMS from the outdoors. Downside is it seems to be a bit slow, especially if you hammer it with news!
With the many dodgy sightings that come with the rare bird news services, I can see things going full circle in the future with a return to local and national grapevines using tools like twitter, and birders subscribing to their friends and people they trust! Check out www.twitter.com .
The networking already exists in places like birdforum (www.birdforum.net)
Also, added my "UK self found list" to Bubo listing (www.bubo.org/listing/ ) Don't have the time, money, or motivation to see 400 species in the UK (especially when it comes to species I've seen fairly regularly in Europe), but would like to "find" 250 species. Was on 240 according to my birdrecorder database, but after listing everything on the bubo web site, I seem to have lost 4 species! Haven't had chance to work out what they were, or where they went!
Often see small groups of Ring-Necked Parakeets in the Shepherd's Bush/White City area on the way into work, but was surprised to see a flock of 24 overhead yesterday morning. These birds know how to increase their numbers!
Finally, are we in for some decent rarities, on the east coast at least.. wind direction, which is about the limit of my bird predicting skills!, shows a shift to North and North-East winds for the rest of the week. We haven't had a prolonged South / South East Wind, which presumably would benefit my local area, for ages!
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