London Birding

[Londonbirder]

I was so disappointed when I saw there was no thread for birders in the London Area. It is a great place to watch birds and for bird sightings. I hope you post some of your London sightings and bird lists. I for one wanted a place on BirdForum to show the amazing ornithology in my city. Thank you,


Londonbirder

[DaveN]

See this thread here about London.

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=59349

[TomSmith]

There actually is a London Birding (http://birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=59349) thread; but you're right that it's not very active. Perhaps you could wake it up a bit...?

You might be interested in the LondonBirders wiki (www.editthis.info/londonbirders) and the associated Yahoo discussion group (http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonbirders/), which are both fairly active and very high quality.

Tom

[Londonbirder]

Thanks Tom they look really good (not being sarcastic!)

[Londonbirder]

Todays Rare Sightings:
Waxwings=Chafford Hundred
Lesser Redpoll=WWT London
Bittern=WWT London
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker=Wanstead Park

[Thing]

There is of course a thread dedicated to Fulham....o:D

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=97428

[Nick Tanner]

Had a male Wheatear at East India Dock Basin, Tower Hamlets, this morning not only is it a site tick it, it is the earliest I've seen in London

Nick

[Johnny Allan]

Hi there,

I'm trying to find out which Counties still use the Watsonian Vice County system to record birds in and which go by whatever the political boundary may change to (and why).

The Watsonian Vice County system was set to accurately record and compare historical and modern data and it seems that there can be/is confusion when some counties no longer use this system whilst others do. Does anyone in your county have a view on this ? Discussion here if anyone has a comment:

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=142074

ps this is not about getting more or less county ticks, more a question about uniformity in recording.

Johnny Allan