In the
light of the number of comments on the recent Marcham Garden posting we
(Badger & Gnome) reluctantly feel that we need to step in to state
the official position of Oxon Birding. It was originally set up due to
dis-satisfaction with the available media for reporting county bird
news: we wanted something where the relevant news could quickly be seen
without having to wade through lots of irrelevant non-sighting waffle.
By all measures the blog has been a huge success,due in no small part to
all of the time and effort put in to it by local birders. It has become
the de facto main focus point for reporting all county bird news and
has generally worked very well with minimal policing on our part.
For
the removal of doubt, the main objective of this blog is to report
information on the more interesting and unusual sightings within the
county and in particular this includes scarce birds that people may want
to see. It is also a forum for some of the county's great
photographers to post their pictures. It's not a forum for debating
issues, or reporting sightings that will be of little or no interest to
other people - there are the Oxonbirds Yahoo newsgroup and a large
selection of personal blogs for that sort of thing. If you're in any
doubt as to what is relevant regarding sightings then you should post
them on the Going Birding site. This has an automatic filter which
forwards relevant sightings on to the Oxon Birding blog.
If you would
like to discuss this further then the Oxonbirds news group is the place
for doing this. In fact we'll post this statement there as well (together with all the Marcham Garden comments) so people can carry on the debate.
We
hope that this clarifies the position. In future, we will simply remove
any posts which aren't considered relevant to this blog.
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