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Originally Posted by barney Hi,
It wasn`t meant as a criticism of anyone,i just thought it would be a good idea to try and get everyone together more often.
Obviously i should keep my nose out.
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Hi Jon
You meant well, that's the main thing. The problem with WAB (and it's a good one) is that the members interests are very diverse and getting like minded people to a meet can be quite hard. I organised an event in Yorkshire, part Birdforum members and part WAB members that was fairly well attended yet when I organised the Anglesey event only a married couple turned up from WAB. That took quite a bit of organising and I have to admit it was a bit soul destroying to see that I was only taking four people around (two others were friends of mine, Diane and her husband Keith from WAB, but they were going anyway).
The Dragonfly meet Fourwings organised was a great success but the one problem is getting enough people to respond that are prepared to travel as I doubt there are many local to an area. We are all spread out.
Birdforum has near 50,000 members and they struggle to get large meets together. I have organised a few very succesful ones, equally some haven't worked out as well.
I think as time goes by, and more members join, I think you will find that more meets are organised and more members attend those meets.
As eeyore has said. Why don't you come up with some ideas of meets and we will see what interest we can generate.
John