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Hello BirdingAusers,
I have had some encouraging responses to my posting about my web-site
featuring the Regent Honeyeater.
Thank you to all who have contacted me.
Of course, in the process I have been found out!
Yes! This is the same Bob Inglis who not so long ago stated in Australian
Birding Magazine that he was not presently intending to connect to the
Internet.
Well... A response to that statement from John and Ruth Walter made me
think again. Also, as we have entered a new century and millennium (so I am
told) I decided that was one non-core promise that did not need to be kept. So
here I am.
I am still not totally convinced the Internet is the be all to end all but
I can see some advantages; I always could but I believe it can so easily be
mis-used.
The main advantage for me is the ready access via forums such as the
BirdinAus mailing list to fresh information on sightings and locations. The
Internet beats magazines hands down in that area.
However, there really is a lot of 'guff' being posted at times meaning a
lot of time is wasted sifting through the information to find something
relevant.
I must admit that I did subscribe to the BirdingAus mailing list for a
couple of days but found I was getting more e-mails than I could handle and a
large percentage of them were of no interest to me. Now I only refer to the
archives.
May I suggest a couple of points that would-be posters to BirdingAus might
consider?
1. Could writers please give a bit more information pin-pointing the actual
location of sightings and outings, eg, distance and direction from a major
centre. Sometimes I have absolutely no idea where people are talking about.
2. As another person commented recently, please don't include attachments;
I simply do not look at them. It would appear that, even with the
safeguards Russell has provided, it is still possible for the scum of this world
to get their viruses through to do their damage. (If you have something really
good to divulge and it is too large or contains graphics, consider creating your
own web-site. A simple web-site containing only text is fairly easy to
create.)
On the subject of Regent Honeyeaters and web-sites:
This will take you directly to the Regent Honeyeater page and you will
avoid going through the rest of my exercise in ego boosting.
I have been informed that there is at least one other website featuring the
Regent Honeyeater under construction. It looks like it will be more informative
than mine.
In the mean time check out my site for details of contact numbers and
people as well as search day dates for year 2000.
Bob Inglis
Woody Point, SEQ
e-mail:
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