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- mullbirds
- Lochdon, Isle of Mull, United Kingdom
- I am Alan Spellman my web site is www.mullbirds.com I was a founding member of the Isle of Mull Bird Club and have lived on the island for 18 years. I enjoy being out with my camera attempting to capture the wildlife and birds of our island. I would like us to share experiences and information of sightings, especially of rarer birds that visit Mull.
I like the idea of using the blog for receiving your 'latest news' but I wonder if it would be as accessible to as many of your readers.
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
I would say go for it, it looks really smart and a great way just to get the reports regularly. I like the way its a bit more interactive too. Keep up the good work Alan!
ReplyDeleteBlog rather than latest news everytime Alan. The blog allows you to be more detailed, and conversational if you wish.It is much more interactive and has the potential to involve your readers more. The success of Dave Sexton's Mull Sea Eagles blog and the Loch Garten Osprey Centre blog should be enough evidence of the above.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with all the above comments - the only thing I would add is whether people will contribute on the blog - people may not have the confidence to start with - I set up on group on Facebook and have 179 members but probably only about 20 actually contribute - I guess the rest just browse - on the other hand it is more conversational and you can get a dialogue going - I would say keep both going to start and see how it goes!
ReplyDeleteJust dropping by - from down south in Chilly berkshire - would love to drop in and find out what you've seen - as a not frequent enough visitor to Mull - I can get a mental picture of where you are and what you are seeing. lesley t in Newbury
ReplyDeleteLke reading comments on the blog but still like to quickly view latest reports page to see what's been about.
ReplyDeleteAlan, ashamed to say that have only just found this!
ReplyDeleteBlogs are good because they're more personal and you don't feel embarrassed about asking about bird identification or being late with posting things - like the 20 odd curlew feeding by the northern side of Loch na Keal last week. You can send in fairly positive sightings that others are also fairly positive about but visibility wasn't good - that helps when others come in.
It will also be good for the learner visitor as well.