Ok points noted
Denise Kay
On 29 Jan 2014, at 4:44 pm, Falco <> wrote:
> 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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