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Badger & Gnome
- Happy New Year.
Many thanks to all those that have contributed sightings to the OBL and Goingbirding throughout 2012, please keep them coming in 2013. Special thanks also to all the fantastic photographers around the county who are relentlessly 'badgered' for...
- 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...
- New Oxon Going Birding Service
The new Oxon Going Birding service is in the final stages of testing now and we're looking for more people to sign up to test it. The actual Going Birding part for logging sightings is tried and tested and has been used by several other counties for...
- Welcome!
Welcome to the new fledgling Oxon Bird Log. The idea is to be a central focal point for Oxon birding sightings and news. This blog is a multi-contributor blog though at present blogging access is by invitation only....
- Blogging Help
Most of the blogging should be fairly straight-forward so below are some useful pointers to help with blogging. Posting via "Going Birding" When using the Going Birding service, for each sighting there is a "Post to Blog" tick box option. This will by...
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Editorial Policy on Oxon Birding Blog
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 media for reporting county bird news: we wanted something where the relevant news could quickly be seen without having to wade through lots of irrelevant non-sighting waffle. By all measures the blog has been a huge success,due in no small part to all of the time and effort put in to it by local birders. It has become the de facto main focus point for reporting all county bird news and has generally worked very well with minimal policing on our part.
For the removal of doubt, the main objective of this blog is to report information on the more interesting and unusual sightings within the county and in particular this includes scarce birds that people may want to see. It is also a forum for some of the county's great photographers to post their pictures. It's not a forum for debating issues, or reporting sightings that will be of little or no interest to other people - there are the Oxonbirds Yahoo newsgroup and a large selection of personal blogs for that sort of thing. If you're in any doubt as to what is relevant regarding sightings then you should post them on the Going Birding site. This has an automatic filter which forwards relevant sightings on to the Oxon Birding blog.
If you would like to discuss this further then the Oxonbirds news group is the place for doing this. In fact we'll post this statement there as well (together with all the Marcham Garden comments) so people can carry on the debate.
We hope that this clarifies the position. In future, we will simply remove any posts which aren't considered relevant to this blog.
- Happy New Year.
Many thanks to all those that have contributed sightings to the OBL and Goingbirding throughout 2012, please keep them coming in 2013. Special thanks also to all the fantastic photographers around the county who are relentlessly 'badgered' for...
- 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...
- New Oxon Going Birding Service
The new Oxon Going Birding service is in the final stages of testing now and we're looking for more people to sign up to test it. The actual Going Birding part for logging sightings is tried and tested and has been used by several other counties for...
- Welcome!
Welcome to the new fledgling Oxon Bird Log. The idea is to be a central focal point for Oxon birding sightings and news. This blog is a multi-contributor blog though at present blogging access is by invitation only....
- Blogging Help
Most of the blogging should be fairly straight-forward so below are some useful pointers to help with blogging. Posting via "Going Birding" When using the Going Birding service, for each sighting there is a "Post to Blog" tick box option. This will by...