Young Birder (1 Viewer)

[devilbirder]

I created it as a public blog where we post our photos and birding reports etc.
Like our chatty place is here and everyone can read about what the Young Birders been up to on the blog. I am going to try and send an invtie to join the blog to everyone who regularly contributes to this thread.
Any comments/suggestions on how we do it (chat v pics and reports) are welcome

 

[Marcel_orni]

D-Birder

Hi,
I'm from Germany, 15 years old, and I'm looking for birds since last year. In Germany there are only 3 "young Birder". Tobias Habermann, Max Fader and me. I have already seen 252 birds in Germany. zhis is also my lifelist and my yearlist. I often look for birds with Birders from Bremen and sometimes with Tobias Habermann. 2 Days ago I ticked the Great Northern Diver, and next weekend I´ll show it to Tobias and another birder.
Regards,
Marcel
PS. Sorry for my bad english, I only speak english at school...

 

[teamsaint]

Hi,
I'm from Germany, 15 years old, and I'm looking for birds since last year. In Germany there are only 3 "young Birder". Tobias Habermann, Max Fader and me. I have already seen 252 birds in Germany. zhis is also my lifelist and my yearlist. I often look for birds with Birders from Bremen and sometimes with Tobias Habermann. 2 Days ago I ticked the Great Northern Diver, and next weekend I´ll show it to Tobias and another birder.
Regards,
Marcel
PS. Sorry for my bad english, I only speak english at school...

Your English is great, there must be more than 3 young birders in Germany?!?!

 

[devilbirder]

Hi,
I'm from Germany, 15 years old, and I'm looking for birds since last year. In Germany there are only 3 "young Birder". Tobias Habermann, Max Fader and me. I have already seen 252 birds in Germany. zhis is also my lifelist and my yearlist. I often look for birds with Birders from Bremen and sometimes with Tobias Habermann. 2 Days ago I ticked the Great Northern Diver, and next weekend I´ll show it to Tobias and another birder.
Regards,
Marcel
PS. Sorry for my bad english, I only speak english at school...

Your English is great, I learn french and would not be able to say the equivelant in French as well as you have German to English!
I'm sure there are many more young birder out there. Same for the UK, they probably don't use the web much or if they do not for birding websites.
Well done on the Great-northern Diver!

 

[Weißwurscht-Birder]

Hi,
In our biggest rarities alert "club 300" there are only 3 members who are under 18 (Marcel, Max Fader and me). I have never seen another young birder although I'm watching birds since 2002 now (despite Marcel of course).

 

[christineredgate]

So good to see young people interested in birding.You may be in the minority,but a few is better than none at all.I had a look on the Young Birders blog,very good.Stay with it ,you guys,enjoy,you will be around to look after our feathered friends ,when the golden oldies of us are long gone.A reassuring thought.

 

[Zac Hinchcliffe]

Managed to upload onto 'the blog' today.

Got a Glaucous Gull at a local Gull Roost - A Lifer.

How've your days been? (Glorious Weather!)

 

[On-Firecrest]

Don't mention the pipits

How've your days been? (Glorious Weather!)

Rubbish! standing on the banks of the river thames, frezzing my bo**ocks off (minus degrees with the wind chill) looking at some stone barges and seaweed where some rock and water pipits were earlier in the day and comprehensively failing to see any! and then off to see some relatives.
NOT HAPPY:C

Cool avater btw zac:t:

 

[birderbf]

PS. Sorry for my bad english, I only speak english at school...

That's funny - I only speak German at school! (Nur ein bisschen )
and the English is better than most kids in my class, so don't worry!

Welcome to our thread!

 

[JRE]

Tom, my friend, I'm afraid you're falling behind!
There's a meandering, long, boring, uninspired, arsenumbinglydull (nice word huh? ) report on my blog about my trip to Slimbridge in Glouc.

Anyway, sparing you details, had cracking views of Bittern, and also got Tundra Bean Goose.
A couple of yearticks, and the year list is up to 192, Brit list moves to 222, and world to 322.

 

[devilbirder]

Steve, I also was going to see Water Pipits at Beddington SF yesterday, we were just gonna go round the corner to where there are about 6 regularly but my mum desperately wanted me back home ASAP so we had to go (arg parents are so annoying). Anyway it was a good day and I posted a few videos on the blog.

 

[teamsaint]

Tom, my friend, I'm afraid you're falling behind!
There's a meandering, long, boring, uninspired, arsenumbinglydull (nice word huh? ) report on my blog about my trip to Slimbridge in Glouc.

Anyway, sparing you details, had cracking views of Bittern, and also got Tundra Bean Goose.
A couple of yearticks, and the year list is up to 192, Brit list moves to 222, and world to 322.

Ah Jyothi my old friend, how kind of you to contact me regarding your latest triumphs. I must admit that at first a look of false optimism swept across my face, because I believed i would be able to make you look an idiot, by saying that I myself also added a species yesterday. However it was only when I realised that you had added 2 species that my worst fears were realised. But, all is not lost, as before the closing of the year I plan to admit the following species to my list - White-tailed Eagle, Smew, Lesser Scaup, Glaucous Gull, Long-tailed Duck and Caspian Gull. So in your face

 

[birderbf]

Got two more for the county/year list today, again, one was a wildcard. The first, Harlequin Duck, was expected and overdue (overdue since 05), number two, Long-eared Owl, was quite a surprise. Now two from 200. I think it brings my year total up to 281 in my counting system, which differs from the ABA's only in that heard birds are worthy of my list. So besides the ones I've seen, I've heard about three more that I can remember.

 

[devilbirder]

My year list is static at a dismal 170 and I believe this is how it will stay unless I get Siskin and Lesser Redpoll at the Surrey commons or if the Sociable Plover at Grove Ferry comes back .

 

[devilbirder]

Hi all again
What do you think of monthly young birders blog newsletter co-written by all the admin then we send it to all the members?
Dunno what we'd put in it but we'd find something
what do you think?

 

[On-Firecrest]

Hi all again
What do you think of monthly young birders blog newsletter co-written by all the admin then we send it to all the members?
Dunno what we'd put in it but we'd find something
what do you think?

yeah, sure i could think of something. What do the rest of you think? personnally monthly may be a bit much, perhaps bi monthly?

 

[birderbf]

Hi all again
What do you think of monthly young birders blog newsletter co-written by all the admin then we send it to all the members?
Dunno what we'd put in it but we'd find something
what do you think?

This is just me, but I think it is totally unnecessary to send a newsletter. I doubt there's much we can add in it that we wouldn't have covered on the blog, here, or wherever.

Also, I assume what you mean by members of the blog is the posters on this thread, and to send a newsletter to everybody on ar least two continents could get a bit $$$y!

 

[On-Firecrest]

took a trip round my (right) tetrad this time, after last times debacle on a glorious boxing day morning, nothing paticulalry exciting, other then fording a flooded path and falling in! bird excitement was only a small bellowing of bullfinches, mostly males.
Had a good christmas?

 

[JRE]

Hi all again
What do you think of monthly young birders blog newsletter co-written by all the admin then we send it to all the members?
Dunno what we'd put in it but we'd find something
what do you think?

That might be difficult. The content that you'd find in something like that is usually trip reports and sightings etc, which are already fully covered on the blog. A bit adventerous IMO.
Leave it as it is, it's still new, just concentrating on the blog for now I reckon is the best idea.

 

[On-Firecrest]

managed to get out 2day, so i posted my trip report on the blog, sorry for being boring i can't write to save my life
Does any one mind if i post birding books/gear reviews on the blog or should we leave it to birding reports?