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Google Earth Photos

To: "'Beth Symonds'" <>, "'Keith Weekes'" <>
Subject: Google Earth Photos
From: "Tony Russell" <>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:36:07 +0930
Come on you lot, you're having a lend of yourselves.  To tick a bird
you've got to be in the physical presence of the live bird and seeing it
either with your naked eye or through bins or scope. I realise that
after seeing a bird we then try for photos of it and that these photos
can be used for later confirmation of ID purposes.
I have no problem with this provided we genuinely saw the bird prior to
taking a picture.

 For me nothing else satisfies the concept of "seeing" the bird -
although a view of the bird through a camera viewfinder probably just
scrapes in.
In any case, let's get a life eh ?
TR.

-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Beth Symonds
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 7:33 AM
To: Keith Weekes
Cc: Birding Aus
Subject: Google Earth Photos


Hi Everyone,

Just last week I was chatting to my fiance's dad (he lives in Bray,
Ireland) and he showed me a Wood Pigeon through their kitchen window.
We were using Skype and a web cam, and I could see it very clearly.

Do I tick it?

Cheers,
Beth Symonds
Brisbane.


On 6/30/07, Keith Weekes <> wrote:
>
> Birders,
>
> Has anyone else noticed that you can load photos from a site into the 
> corresponding site on Google Earth? So now when a rarity arrives we 
> could conceivably receive notice through birding.aus with a link to a 
> photo of the bird at the location.
>
> Could this usher in a new era of low-carbon digital twitching?
>
> ;)
>
> Keith
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