Saturday 27 July 2013

Saturday morning

Very little news in so far. Old Moor: Green Sand 4, Common Sand 2. A Grasshopper Warbler was at Cathill this morning. Three Little Egrets roosted last night but again no sign of the Night Heron.

Mega Moth? A Chocolate Tip was trapped at Old Moor overnight and is apparently thought to be possibly only the second Yorkshire record. Whilst on this subject I am hearing lots of complaints about the Barnsley Birds Sightings blog being more of a Moth site or clotted with bugs. Whilst I personally have a limited interest in things without feathers (yes, I do have an eiderdown!) I can cope with scrolling through it and hopefully picking up on the bits I want to. Maybe the solution is to start a separate site for the other stuff and just post the exceptional non-bird stuff on here as a pointer? What does anybody else think?

16 comments:

ASmith said...

From top of blog.

Barnsley Bird Sightings

Bird & wildlife sightings from the Barnsley recording area.

When there's bird news to post it always take priority to insects. I just thought readers would be interested in how we fill in the days during the birding quiet spell.
Only a couple more weeks and we will be into migration so bird news will pick up then.

Steve Denny said...

I agree. The interest in moths, but ties & dragonflies helps to pad out an otherwise generally quit birding period.

Don't see any harm in posting non birding stuff, it's easy to stroll past if not interested. Easier to photograph too!!

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oxycera said...

I would have thought that most birders would welcome occasional reports of unusual non-avian sightings in the Barnsley area.
On the other hand this is primarily a bird site and shouldn't be a vehicle for general photos of local wildlife.

ASmith said...

Yesterday was, without doubt, the best butterfly day at Wintersett for at least 3 years, with huge numbers of whites over the oilseed rape fields and good numbers of many common species. It would have been a shame not to record it especially as blogs are an easy way of building an archive.

oxycera said...

Quite so, unusual non-avian sighting. I was just making a general point; from a purely personal point of view the more insect reports the better.

Cliff Gorman said...

Angie is right. It says at the top of the page that is for wildlife sightings as well. There is more to wildlife than just birds what a pity the complainants can't see beyond that.Fat Birder rates the site as number 55, he must think it's readable.

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Carlos said...

How the feck any "birder" can be only interested in birds is beyond me! Keep the insect reports coming!

Bernard Emson said...

To save all the arguments, perhaps the solution would be to start a separate site as the wim man stated. Then the interested people would have their choice of site. Also please publish more of comments that are submitted, too many are deleted , allow freedom of speech if not offensive. I think the fat birder ratings would escalate.

Carlos said...

Deleted comments were due to the same message being repeated bcos of error.on phone.

Steve Denny said...

Same with mine. I think it would be a mistake to split non birding posts from the birding ones. Not seen any anti insect comments yet?