December Quiz & Review
On 15th December, the club held its first meeting since March. This was a quiz and a slide show to review the birding year in the club’s recording area. We held the meeting using Zoom as a trial to see …
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Website maintenance 3rd October
On 3rd October the website was upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and Responsive theme. This has fixed a few issues with displaying on mobiles and the Twitter feeds on the York Peregrines and York Swift pages are improved. …
2019 Report published
I’m delighted to say that the 2019 Report has just been collected from the printers – thank you very much to our ColourOptions again who did the job very quickly – and will be either hand delivered or posted (for those …
2020 Programme cancellation
The committee met recently and decided that regretfully, in line with other clubs in a similar situation, we have no choice but to cancel the programme for the rest of the year given the ongoing uncertainty about when gatherings (especially …
Lockdown Bird Quiz May 2020 – Updated with answers
As the club is unable to meet on 5th May owing to the lockdown, we would like to encourage you to spend a bit of time this evening indulging your passion for birds and birding as you would if you …
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Covid-19 cancellations – update
The YOC Committee regrets that, owing to the restrictions on gatherings and general movement for anything other than essential business plus the uncertainty about when it will be safe to meet up again, the YOC meeting and trips in May …
Covid-19 cancellations
In light of government advice for everyone to avoid social gatherings and to keep social ‘distance’ over the next few weeks in an attempt to contain Covid-19, the Committee has had to bow to the inevitable and postpone the April …
Website compatibility
The YorkBirding website works well using the Chrome browser on Windows 7 and 10. It is also functional using Safari and Firefox on newer versions of Mac OS; definitely works with v10.14. However, some issues have been noted on other …
SE53 trip cancelled
UPDATE The Field trip on Sunday 9th February was postponed because of Storm Ciara. I was hoping to rearrange it for this coming Sunday (the 16th), but that isn’t really possible. The B1223 which is the main access route to …
Photo Competition 2019
On 3rd December, the club held its annual photo competition. Many thanks to Tom Lawson for his work in preparing the show and running the evening. Thank you too to Peter Watson and Barry Thomas for standing in as judges, …