Hi everyone I received this reminder about Bird a Day, and thought I’d share it with Birding-Aus readers. It would be great to have a much bigger group of Australian participants in 2014. This year, Alan Gillanders almost beat the whole world, falling just short of a perfect year on December 19 (with 352 birds). John Kooistra recorded a different bird for 294 consecutive days, and Stephen Murray, for 254 days. I was completely thrilled to get to early July and 191 days/birds. So – who is in for 2014? Details in the forward message below. Russell Woodford ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Trey Mitchell – Bird A Day <admin@birdaday.net > Subject: Bird A Day 2014 To: Trey Mitchell – Bird A Day <admin@birdaday.net > *Try Bird A Day it’s free… * Since the New Year is upon us, why not try something different this coming year. Bird A Day offers a personal challenge that will cause you to see and enjoy more birds in the new year than you might if you don’t participate. Bird A Day challenges you as you see how many days in a row you can see/hear a different bird species. The Bird A Day website helps you track your effort and allows you to share how you are doing with others as they do the same. Go to the website and register yourself. Then you can begin adding observations. Once logged in you can enter some observations to see how it works. On New Year’s Day 2014 those test observations will be listed under 2013 and your new observations will be recorded in 2014 for everyone to see. It’s a friendly competition, mainly against yourself, since it would almost be impossible to have similar circumstances to make the competition even. So we all encourage one another and hope for the best. If you have already participated in the past, your old Account information is likely still good and active. Login with that… Messaging and Photo Uploads were added in 2012. Past Observations and Downloads were added in 2013, Groups and Custom Bird list are Coming Soon! I’m still working on new features for the website, but I didn’t want to wait to invite you to join us this year. So that you will have a chance to prepare to participate. More information is available on the website about how the Bird A Day listing works. For those of you in the UK , Australia, New Zealand, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa if you sign up I’ll make sure I create a custom bird list for your area for your convenience. I’m already working on a few of new list. Check it Out *Bird A Day * So, you are invited to join us and I encouraged you to invite your birding friend to participate with you this year. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Now It’s back to coding changes to the rest of the site before 2014 gets here. Happy New Birding Year, *Trey Mitchell* Bird A Day Admin… PO Box 972438 Miami, Florida 33197 trey@photographwildlife.com<trey@photographwildlife.com?subject=Reply%20to%20PhotographWildlife.com> www.photographwildlife.com www.birdaday.net _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
