Website updates
We are making changes to some of the pages for submitting records to make it easier to submit records to the YOC Recorder for rarities. Please bear with us over this weekend if pages look a bit strange. Rarity records …
Category: Club News
news about the club
Gazetteer can be downloaded from website
The annual report has for a number of years included a gazetteer of sites in the area, including OS grid references. A full list of these sites can now be downloaded as a pdf by clicking this button. If you …
Tom’s Ponds at Bank Island
In memory of YOC stalwart Tom Lawson who died in July 2022, his estate along with YOC, The Friends of the Lower Derwent Valley and Natural England put together funding to improve the scrapes in front of the first (William …
FaceBook page for the YOC
Tim Godson has set up a FaceBook page for the club. If you wish to follow it pleae click on https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.yorkbirding.org.uk/?ref=share_group_link&exp=8ce3
YorkBirding email not working – FIXED
Our YorkBirding email group, which runs using Google Groups, has been suspcnded by Google so is not working. It is not clear why as the content does not violate any of Google’s rules. I have put in an appeal to …
Nitter / X ( formerly Twitter)
We have managed to keep a link to X (formerly Twitter) timelines using Nitter for the last cople of months or so. Unfortunately, that has now come to an end and Nitter servers are all shutting down. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitter. The …
Links to X timelines
The post https://yorkbirding.org.uk/recent-website-updates/ gave an update about some improvements to the website and included information about using Nitter to view the X (formerly Twitter) timelines. Unfortunately, it appears that this solution will not last for much longer. Nitter uses some …
2023 photo competition
The YOC photo competition was held on 5th December when Emanuela shared 163 photos taken by members over the last 12 months. There were three categories for voting by members present, and the roll of honour was: York recording area …