As the person who was too quick to judge Julie, to her I have already
apologised, but I now may I use this opportunity to raise two issues that I
find frustrating about Canberrabirds.
1. (Sans) Field guides
2. Images and image sizes
1. I have been a member of many birding clubs in the US and now in Australia,
but whether it be the availability of the internet or a difference in the way
people go about birding here in Canberra, I have never known people to show
such apparent disinterest in trying to identify birds themselves. If you
haven’t already, can I recommend you purchase a field guide and do that initial
investigation yourself. It is really one of the joys of birding and very
satisfying to nail an ID. If by pursuing the field guide you still cannot
identify a bird then by all means request help on this forum, whether by image
of description.
2. Can I please ask the photographers who use this forum please consider those
of us that use mobile devices and stick to the CLEARLY STATED 100kb image
limit. This doesn’t seem to be policed and we have had recent instances of
8megabyte images. May I suggest you do as others do and post your images to a
photographic forum and post the URL to this forum. Then those that want to look
can follow the link. Again please don’t post images for identification until
you have tried to identify that bird yourself.
Best wishes and I look forward to meeting more of you in the field.
John
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