birdingpals changes

["Russ Lamb" <>]

It appears that birders wanting to access fellow birders via the birdingpals 
website now have to pay a fee. I tested this by attempting to contact myself 
to see if I could take myself birding and ,yes indeed, it now seems that a 
fee is payable before access is granted to a registered birdingpal.
So whereas in the past I could freely communicate with myself about birding 
activity, I now have to pay someone $10 for this privelege (it would appear 
to be a yearly fee).
  I would have thought that the birdingpals  administrator(s) would have 
informed registered birdingpals of this significant change. Although not 
very regular, previous communications from the birdingpal administrator have 
at least notified of significant changes in the operation of the scheme.
 Does anyone know what's the go with this?
Russ Lamb, Maleny