25 years - the changing face of eakringbirds.com |
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2022 marks the silver anniversary of
eakringbirds.com, a website which has remained online for 25 years since
it's first appearance back in 1997. And how times (and especially web
pages) have changed since then.
In 1997, and for many years afterwards, this website was solely given
over to the birds of the Eakring and Kersall area of Nottinghamshire
..... hence the name.
But eventually, interests change and over time and
the recording of butterflies, moths and dragonflies began to increase
and ultimately take over. But the changes in interests didn't end there
and a gradual move away from Eakring to record took place, before Dilys
and I stopped visiting Eakring sometime around 2012. |
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Our local patch became Nottinghamshire, but
especially the Sherwood Forest area and the diversity of our interests
started to encompass most other invertebrate orders, including those
neglected by Nottinghamshire naturalists and entomologists for decades
and sometimes longer. Of
course over that time the website changed and developed, but the name
changed very little, only the '.co.uk' to '.com' as we always thought it
too late to rebrand, especially as the website was now known both UK and
worldwide for its coverage and photography given to Nottinghamshire's
invertebrate fauna. And although Dilys is no longer with us, I'm still
proud to say on behalf of us both, that even after 25 years it still is. |
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