Birds
Afternoon All,
We're all aware the OOS database is an important and valuable archive for bird recording in the county but it is only as good as the records submitted - the more the better! So obviously, everyone is encouraged to provide their records each month, be it directly to the database manager Jon Uren, via the OOS or Going Birding websites or by post to me.
Checking the database over the last couple of months, however, has revealed several notable sightings missing. These records have been posted on this site but obviously not to either the Going Birding or OOS sites. This blog has proved very good at disseminating information and displaying photos but postings here are not automatically uploaded to the database. If sightings are not submitted to either the OOS or Going Birding sites they will in effect be lost, which would be a great shame.
Some records have been submitted by people other than the initial finder, which is fine, but this means in future publications they may well be credited to the wrong observer . . . . and we wouldn't want that would we?
So to clarify, I urge everyone to add their sightings to either the Going Birding or OOS sites and not just this blog alone.
Many thanks,
Ian
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Birds
A Plea to Observers and Submitters
Afternoon All,
We're all aware the OOS database is an important and valuable archive for bird recording in the county but it is only as good as the records submitted - the more the better! So obviously, everyone is encouraged to provide their records each month, be it directly to the database manager Jon Uren, via the OOS or Going Birding websites or by post to me.
Checking the database over the last couple of months, however, has revealed several notable sightings missing. These records have been posted on this site but obviously not to either the Going Birding or OOS sites. This blog has proved very good at disseminating information and displaying photos but postings here are not automatically uploaded to the database. If sightings are not submitted to either the OOS or Going Birding sites they will in effect be lost, which would be a great shame.
Some records have been submitted by people other than the initial finder, which is fine, but this means in future publications they may well be credited to the wrong observer . . . . and we wouldn't want that would we?
So to clarify, I urge everyone to add their sightings to either the Going Birding or OOS sites and not just this blog alone.
Many thanks,
Ian
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In the light of the number of comments on the recent Marcham Garden posting we (Badger & Gnome) reluctantly feel that we need to step in to state the official position of Oxon Birding. It was originally set up due to dis-satisfaction with the available...
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