Anyone else having trouble updating and uploading record since the recent 'enchancement' to support the recording of Dragonflies. Entering records individually is much more painful and slow than before - over 50% slower per record IMHO.

However the facility to upload lists and casual records via excel spreadsheets appears to be completely broken and though I can upload a file, I can't get the system to import the records from the spreadsheet. I have emailed the organisers about it, but Nick Moran must think that I'm always complaining. :(

Anyone else encountering difficulties? and has anyone tried entering Dragonfly records - it seems a bit trickier to me?

It's about the same speed as before for me. The Dragonflies function doesn't seem to have slowed the process down on my Firefox browser.

My only quibble with the upgrade is that on a search for species at a site dragonflies come up in the list alongside birds with no real distinction and skew the statistics in some cases.

-- Edited by Henry Cook on Wednesday 18th of July 2012 07:00:18 PM

Yes, those are the breeding codes Simon. Try and get as many Confirmed Breeding codes as you can.

You might find entering your sightings as Roving Records on www.birdatlas.net easier - certainly not more difficult.

Cheers, Steve

Thanks, I see the codes is it the one that says breeding statuts and you put like F-FLYING OVER
B-NEST BUILDING
S-SINGING MALE etc

Upto now I have only been entering mine into the casual obs part, hope im doing it right.
It asks me to make new sites for every location even for casuals, abit annoying hope im doing it right.
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-- Edited by Simon Gregory on Tuesday 25th of May 2010 10:20:55 PM

Simon,

If you are entering records onto BirdTrack during the breeding season (April to July) they can be used for both the national Bird Atlas and the GM Breeding Atlas providing you include a breeding code with each record.
There is a column for adding breeding codes on the data entry form and an information icon which lists the codes.

Steve

What is birdtrack is anybody allowed to do it? I wouldn't mind having a go.

Edit forgot I was already signed up for it Got it confused with bird atlas.

-- Edited by Simon Gregory on Sunday 23rd of May 2010 10:54:25 PM

i'm on ie8 but it's started working when i reloaded from a google search. instead off rom my favourite

Hi Jason. It's working fine for me. What browser are you running? I'm on firefox and had some problems recently with the new features added but they seemed to have fixed them.

hi chaps just tried to get into birdtrack to log some sightings from the last few days and it's not finding the site. is anyone else having this problem or is it just me?