West Midlands County News (1 Viewer)

[keithr]

Yep ....and hope some people report them outside their buddies so others can enjoy....

 

[Rob_S]

Yep ....and hope some people report them outside their buddies so others can enjoy....

Point taken, Keith, but this was reported on Twitter on Weds afternoon. I don't have a Facebook account, so I can't comment on what goes on there, but there are a good number of local birders posting sightings promptly on Twitter.

 

[keithr]

Don't do twitter.....bet the same people look at these forums now and again

 

[Phil Andrews]

Yep ....and hope some people report them outside their buddies so others can enjoy....

This bird was widely reported on Twitter, Facebook and the various bird information services - no suppression here

 

[keithr]

No mention on here until Friday...

 

[Phil Andrews]

No mention on here until Friday...

Not suppression is my eyes (and I suspect most other peole's).

I would viewTwitter and to a lesser extent Facebook as essential tools for birding - you are more than welcome to join the West Midlands Birding page on Facebook that I run with Adam Archer.

 

[keithr]

Not suppression is my eyes (and I suspect most other peole's).

I would viewTwitter and to a lesser extent Facebook as essential tools for birding - you are more than welcome to join the West Midlands Birding page on Facebook that I run with Adam Archer.

OK thanks...never heard of the group...will check it out later...

 

[hughie king]

Not suppression is my eyes (and I suspect most other peole's).

I would viewTwitter and to a lesser extent Facebook as essential tools for birding - you are more than welcome to join the West Midlands Birding page on Facebook that I run with Adam Archer.

Agree Phil. Find twitter/Facebook an essential part of modern birding.
No longer have a pager but "following" local & national birders/sites gives as much information. This can be supplemented with phone apps Birdguides & RBA if needed.
Twitter is good for immediate & daily updates along with Facebook West Midlands Birding page for WM regional news. Essential following.
Don't consider Facebook Forum pages as an immediate info source. As the word Forum suggests more a discussion option.
The Slav Grebe in question was regularly updated on both these media outlets.
No excuses for anyone with a mobile phone not to broadcast immediate or update sightings other than bad reception or not owning one of course!
Just as important is to relay "no sign". Thus giving an option to birders to go, wait or desist from travelling.
"The world is out there"

 

[keithr]

Have to travel up M5 > M6 every day and keep seeing "loads of birds" just before the Lidl warehouse ....one day it was Gulls and Corvids and today it was Swifts...most I have seen at one time this year.
Looked on google Maps and only feature I can see is the River Tame....wonder what I will see Friday ?

 

[keithr]

RED KITE soaring over the area where Hagley Road crosses the M5 around 4pm today...I was going south and it was too my left...

 

[Phil Andrews]

Over Quinton Meadows?

 

[keithr]

over M5