Seconded, Alberta. I always find it interesting to find out what
others are seeing and where - particularly as I'm not as mobile as in
the past. The follow-up discussions are often very educational and
greatly benefit from the years of experience of the more
knowledgeable. Afterwards it's possible to delete the message or
save it, as desired. In the same way the more esoteric messages and
discussions may be interesting or cause a blockage of the nostril but
there is a choice to take them or leave them. Let's keep Canberra
Birds a broad discursion medium.
Joe Barr, Dunlop.
At 08:30 PM 7/11/2008, Alberta Hayes wrote:
In regards to this discussion, I couldn't disagree more with most of
the people who have commented other than Steve.
I'm quite a young birder (though not as young as Tobias). Part of
the reason I was so happy about finding this list 2 years ago was
because there were experienced and novice birders, and everyone
could comment regardless of how much experience they had. The less
experienced birders (myself included) could share their finds with
people who could give them advice about where to find the bird
again, or characteristics of the birds.
Some time ago there was a discussion on the chatline about how to
appeal to other backyard birders as a group and recruit new members
to COG. I feel that the types of conversations we are having at the
moment regarding spoonbills and koels where the more experienced
birders vocally dissaprove of other members commenting so much on
particular birds and sightings is detrimental to the numbers of
people contributing to the list. I imagine it is upsetting to hear
your comments are not worth much to other readers of the list, and
such thinking causes much more damage than good. After all, not many
people bird in the Tuggeranong area but the few of us that do submit
observations to the list would possibly never comment again if all
you Belconnen area birders decided to tell us our observations held
no interest to you!
I realise this wouldn't be the object of Geoffrey, Martin, and
others comments. But please be aware that there are a couple of
hundred people subscribed to this list and intrests will vary
widely. I wish I had a koel to report!
Alberta Hayes, Monash.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:16 PM, wallaces
<<>> wrote:
As a relatively new contributor to Canberrabirds and as one of the
people who obviously annoyed Alistair, might I say that what is not
interesting to some is interesting to others. I would much rather
people report what they see rather than assume it is not of
interest. I am not keen on the suggestions of sending personal
emails to a person who will summarise the data as this takes away
the most important reason for me to use Canberrabirds - locating
birds that are of interest to me and keeping in touch with
developments such as the nesting of the spoonbills. While Koels are
not anything special for me (I lived on the NSW north coast for many
years) they are an interesting bird for Canberra and I hope that
reporting their location can help others (such as Rod) to locate them.
I encourage people to use Canberrabirds freely. While I am not
interested in a large number of the reports and discussions,
filtering them out is a small price to pay for the information which
is of interest to me. We cannot expect everyone to be interested in
every report and it would be a shame to have people reduce their
reporting because they assume that some people may not find it interesting.
Steve
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