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The following links take
you to the Monthly Bird Reports, which started in September 2006. These
increasingly include digital images. All unacknowledged photographs were taken by Bruce Archer. |
I
started to produce a monthly report of my bird sightings at Moor Green Lakes
in September 2006 after a notice board was installed at the entrance to the
reserve. It was felt that some topical information was required for
visitors, as well as the car park closing time! Since I visit the site most
days I get to see many of the birds that are around. I also gather
information from the Bird log sheet in Colebrook Hide and from chatting with
other Bird Watchers, or Birders as we have become in today's abbreviated
lingo. The Monthly Bird Reports are informal and probably incomplete but
provide a flavour of what has been seen and what a visitor might see.
The
information in the Monthly Bird Reports found its way onto the
Blackwater Valley
Countryside Partnership website,
then once the MGLG website became available the reports were included. The
next step was to add photographs to the reports on the website. More and
more people are taking good quality digital photographs using the rapidly
evolving technology. Some of these photographs are produced by
"digiscoping", which involves using a small digital camera to take pictures
through a normal bird watching telescope to achieve zoom factors in excess
of x100. Good light, the right whether conditions and luck are required to
get reasonable pictures by digiscoping, but not all birds hang around long
enough for this, hence you will see some pictures of fuzzy blobs, which are
good enough to prove that a particular species of bird was present, but
little more.
Ian Brown is the MGLG Bird Recorder and produces the official Annual Bird
Report, including maintaining the MGL Bird Species List, which forms part of
the MGLG Annual Report sent to all Members and is summarised in the
Bird
Species List page.
Bruce Archer
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