The Electronic EgretWelcome to the Journal of the South East Essex RSPB Group

We will be posting our thoughts, snippets of information and other miscellaneous items that do not seem to have a place on our main website in this blog. Please feel free to reply to any of our postings with your thoughts and comments - we welcome all kinds of feedback. Note that you do not have to sign up or subscribe to post comments but all comments are moderated by us and, therefore, may take a short time to appear.

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View Article  New Really Cool Image Search

This is really neat. If you use Google image search try this free download for your browser. After installation, do an image search on Google (http://images.google.co.uk/imghp?amp%3Bie=UTF-8&%3...) then hover over one of the thumbnails and click the little arrow that appears - wow!

Download the plug-in at: http://www.piclens.com

View Article  South East Essex RSPB Website Statistics

For those of you that may be curious about such things I have included our website statistics for the month of July below:

Total Sessions Served 45436

Most commonly accessed pages

/index.htm with 7485 hits
/sightings.htm with 7216 hits
/serspbcam/webcam.htm with 2774 hits
/serspbcam/webcamcapture.htm with 1227 hits
/advice.htm with 1200 hits
/photos/index.html with 1100 hits
/birdinfo.htm with 914 hits
/calender.htm with 877 hits
/news.htm with 753 hits

Obviously the Spoonbill greatly helped the webcam totals this month!

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View Article  Your Own Bird Stamps

This seems quite fun and I didn't know that you could do it. I have just ordered some 'Little Egret' stamps.

See: http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/shop;jsessionid=TKCYQARG33MZ0FB2IGVEPLQUHRA0WQ2K?catId=9300091&pageId=shp_category&category=cat35760027&gear=shop

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View Article  Robot Watches Out For Woodpecker
See BBC Nature item at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6372911.stm

 

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View Article  Personalised Google Page

For those of you that run Google as a personalised default start page  in your browser (if you don't, see: http://www.google.com/ig as it's pretty neat) You can now add our webcam as part of the content.

Once you have signed in to receive personalised content you can go to the 'add stuff' link at the top right and on the next page type in 'webcam' in the search box. Once the list comes up select to add the 'Anycam' function (2nd one down at the time of writing). Once this is on your homepage, all you need do is select 'edit' from the app menu and enter in the URL of http://www.southendrspb.co.uk/serspbcam/camera0.jpg in the 'Cam Image Location' and the 'Cam Homepage'  boxes and then you will have our webcam whenever you start your browser.

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View Article  Windows Live Writer

I have just downloaded the new Windows Live Writer software which allows you to create blog entries through a program on your desktop.

Not a bad program, and this posting is to see how it copes with inserting Windows Live Local maps.

If this post comes out OK it could prove to be very useful.