MANCHESTER BIRDING ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

WHO AM I AND WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING?

Photo courtesy of David Winnard

Welcome to my Greater Manchester County birding website, Manchester Birding. It is owned, designed, built and maintained by me, Ian McKerchar with the ever generous contributions from many county birders. Besides running this website I am also County Bird Recorder for Greater Manchester, Chairman (voting) of the County Rarities Committee and one of the two administrators for the Greater Manchester Bird Recording Group. I constructed this site from scratch during 2006 with nothing but a computer program, an idiots guide (which I couldn't understand), hope, lots of cups of tea and more swear words than I care to remember! Anyway, it was a long time ambition, was well worth it and has become something of a work in progress (not to mention a labour of love!) as I add bits, get new ideas (always a dangerous thing) or input from its many dedicated users who have really embraced the site and made it their own. Manchester Birding was finally published in September 2006 and it's associated forum in October 2006 and is funded by myself.

I would welcome photographs, articles or other items of interest about birds and birding for the possible inclusion in this site and to ask those interested to consult the guidelines for submissions link here and would warmly welcome any feedback concerning this site to be sent to me at: ianmckerchar1@gmail.com

Please note that views, opinions and comments within this site are my own unless otherwise stated and are not necessarily those of the Greater Manchester Bird Recording Group or County Rarities Committee.

'Manchester Birding' is just the name of this (my) website, it is not the name of an organisation or society, nor is it an 'official' website for the county or any organisation.

Note that statistic totals for the Manchester Birding website and forum are totally separate as each is held by a completely different hosting company.

MANCHESTER BIRDING WEBSITE STATISTICS

Statistics upto and including November 2011:

Total Hits: 19,966,032

Total Visits: 737,721

Busiest month- Hits: January 2011 (716,336). Visits: January 2011 (23,813)

MANCHESTER BIRDING FORUM STATISTICS

upto and including 19th December 2011:

Total visits: 8,538,127

Average visits per day: 4,322

Total registered users: 1005

Average posts per day: 28

Total threads/total posts: 3,570/54,403

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