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| The Online Birding Guide |
As Darel Heitkamp explains below, this webpage is going to be leaving. It will remain for a number of months until frequent visitors all have a chance to see it, but then be replaced by the main website of the Indiana Audubon Society. Please visit us often for news of coming events, bird counts and recaps of past activities.
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White-winged Dove Chesterton, IN, Porter County 18 April 2006 Brendan Grube |
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Cinnamon Teal Soldiers' Memorial Park Lake, LaPorte County 02 April 2006 Jeanette Girton |
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Cinnamon Teal Soldiers' Memorial Park Lake, LaPorte County 02 April 2006 Brendan Grube |
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Announcing a Format Change
By Darel Heitkamp, Editor of the Online Birding Guide 23 April 2006, 22:50 The popular "Recent Photos" and "Photo Archive" features of the Online Birding Guide are both about to be moved to an online photo archiving service called flickr. The main advantages of the flickr site are (1) our large photo database of Indiana birds will now be searchable by key words, such as bird species, bird families, counties, location (e.g. state parks), specific photographers, and by other interesting features, such as birds on a nest, juvenile birds, birds in flight, birds at feeder, birds with a fish and so on; (2) photographers can upload their photos to the site themselves instead of relying on me; (3) flickr automatically displays the specific camera model used and all the camera settings (EXIF information) for each photo without the photographer having to do anything; (4) there are lots of other interesting bird photo groups on flickr that you can join and even post photos to like Digiscoping Forum, Birds on a Wire, Birds on Signs, Water Birds, Only Ospreys, Bird Nests, Bird Silhouettes, Birds of Prey, Sun-kissed Birds, Backyard Birds, and many more. How will this will be different for you? Flickr is NOT a part of the Indiana Audubon Society. You need to go to http://www.flickr.com and SIGN UP for a FREE membership. You will need to choose a screen name. Then you can join our group, Indiana Audubon Society's Gallery and Photo Archive, and any of the other groups mentioned above. Once you get to the IAS page, you can look at the most recently posted photos, page through all the photos, and read the discussion forum. In the discussion forum I have instructions posted on how to upload photos and how to search the database using keywords. We encourage everyone to join--it's free, and it's truly the future for photo archiving. It won't take long for you to see the power of flickr. If you already have a Yahoo acount, you can use your Yahoo username and password to log in because Flickr is in partnership with Yahoo--you'll see where on the main sign in page. Soon, Dick Patterson, the IAS webmaster, will unveil a redesigned IAS frontpage that will incorporate some of the other OBG features, like the birding sites. Soon, this OBG page will cease operation. Thanks for supporting the Online Birding Guide over the years and making the photo gallery so popular. Go flickr. Copyright 1998-2006 Phil & Joanne Kelly and Darel Heitkamp, which applies to all concepts related to the Online Birding Guide. All photographs, original essays, and site guides are the copyrighted property of the respective photographers and authors. |