Who can contribute and from where.
These pages are intended for local consumption, but please everyone participate. The more feedback the better. If you can add any vis sightings or general / specific information from elsewhere, which will help us to better understand or compare how our birds are moving and from whence they are coming / going and the like, then please do so. This information can be added as comments appended to the appropriate day reports, from any location (Bradford or elsewhere). Anything to improve understanding will be greatly appreciated and this type of info will be very, very welcome!!

As an experiment and as a means of access to these VISIBLE MIGRATION pages for persons wishing to contribute in any way to our VISIBLE MIGRATION knowledge. I intend to set up a MONTHLY OPEN POST, to which those interested in contributing can as "comments" post and add their visible migration comments, questions, background information and the like. In fact again, anything likely to be of interest to the vis watcher can be included. The opportunity to improve communication locally (or even wider) on this subject is exciting and just too good to miss! These pages are primarily relative to the Bradford Ornithological Group (and surrounding) area but as Visible Migration is Nation wide and beyond, any other background from elsewhere is of great interest to us here in our own small world of Bradford.

Please remember to include your name, date, location, time, species, flight directions, contact details (if you want a reply) and the like. Anonymous postings may not be uploaded / accepted and may not even be recognised by our systems. Please also keep to topic "Visible Migration".

What the Visible Migration Pages will contain and how to Contribute.
Anyone counting bird migration in the Bradford Ornithological Group area or nearby and wishing to have their reports included on these report pages should mail them to me (Dave Barker) direct or preferably via any of the existing reporting systems currently in use or for this website, with a clear note confirming authorisation to include on these local Group pages. Specific counts of "vis" species, presence or occurrences / activity irrespective of whether complete reports or not can also be included as in fact can anything of interest to the "vis" watcher. Negative and minimal reports are just as important as those on “big days”. I will then upload to do a daily - or more frequent update often when I receive the info, very much in the fashion that we have become to expect. Anyone needing mailing instructions should get them from me at one of the monthly Group meetings. It is also possible to provide information as a “Comment” to the appropriate mail on the Visible Migration sightings page. I can then pick it up from there and post it properly, or leave it as a “comment” to the day report as appropriate. It is recognised that the, at least daily availability (when this is possible and fieldworkers available) of the visible migration appraisal and advice is essential, as the ever changing data soon gets past its sell by date and becomes of limited interest as the birds move on. All contributions should be in simple text.