The thing is though, sightings of rare birds are on the club website. The home page has a Twitter feed on it, so sightings are reported live as they come in. It doesn't take much effort to scroll through them. Similarly, Andrew Chick will often create a "reported" post if something particularly eyebrow-raising crops up!
Admittedly, I don't post on the forum as much as I did a year or so ago but if I kick up anything interesting, then I add @lincsbirders to my tweet and it goes onto the feed if admin deign it worth a re-tweet.
It's a convenient and efficient way of doing things. I am regularly out birding until nightfall. I know a fair few Lincs birders who are the same. This is particularly an issue in Summer. If I've seen something at ten in the morning, surely it's better to get the news out there and then, rather than wait until getting on for eleven at night to log on and post it?
It's worth remembering that the forum is just one aspect of the Lincolnshire Bird Club. It's still got a good turnover of sightings on the reports board - including thread titles mentioning Rustic Bunting, Pallas's Warbler, Ravens, Yellow-browed Warbler and Purple Sandpipers on the first page alone.
Twitter is just another way for Lincs Bird Club members to communicate and get the word out. It is every bit as accessible to forum members as this web page is. It seems churlish to complain on one hand about a percieved lack of news about "rare" birds provided by LBC (I don't agree) when not utilising all the services that it provides.
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