What Bird Is That Forum

I'd been missing it! Especially when I had ID mysteries or when my father-in-law sent me a picture of a nearly all white Bald Eagle. Clear back in the beginning I'd found an article/post that I thought might have a solution to the problem but I had no way to contact anyone. I managed to track down ...

I thought it would be fun to have a thread for reporting interesting bird behavior we observe.

This morning I watched a Great-Tailed Grackle catch and eat a small snake, maybe 4 or 5" long. He didn't try to wash it, which I have observed them to do as well. But it's the dry season now, and while I ...

Greyhawk wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 7:01 pm
I'll definitely look into an extension that at least allows users to "thank" a post.

I do think it's a bit strange that the platform doesn't offer reaction options, given how ubiquitous they are these days.

The old forum was run on Invision. But it seems like this one will suit our needs!

I must confess I'm missing the ability to give 'Likes' more than I expected. Sure, we could reply with smilies but that takes up a lot of space and give the impression new content has been posted.


I miss that ...

Good old phpBB, which used to power every self-hosted forum :D

Maybe I should have looked into a more modern platform, or specifically found out what drove the previous forum, but I already had some familiarity with phpBB, which I thought might reduce the learning curve and knew my host had a ...

I can use Flickr or Google Photos.


I drag the photo from my computer to the edit window. Then options appear at the bottom, one is "place inline" and the other is something like "delete file"; I click on place inline and the photo appears when you submit the post. An option maybe until you ...

These come up often on the Facebook Bird Misidentification Group:

https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Birds-Whole-Stupid-ebook/dp/B093NHRNY2/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_2/143-7498630-5533803?pd_rd_w=PVnqU&content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf ...

A rather strange lifer for me from last month. I had seen a lot of these when I lived in the US but I wasn't a birder then. They have only moved to northern Guatemala in recent years, and still remain a very exciting rare sighting. Everyone managed to see them during the Christmas Bird Count ...

From yesterday, one of my favorite daily visitors:

I'm sure changing the size of the image did change the file size, but if it only got to 31 kb it must be a PNG or BMP, JPG's have smaller file size.

In any case, I raised the file size limit so your avatar should be okay now.


Thank you! Success. Now to see if I can upload photos to threads ...