February News - don't forget to vote, TW

Feb 1, 201211 min read

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Published: Feb 1, 2012

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February 24

Don't forget to vote in our Emotions contests! The deadline for voting is March 3rd.
Here are the voting links:
Photo Contest | Art Contest | Unknown Artists Contest

We have a Themed Week, "Focus on Feathers," going on right now!
Check out the best submissions here

Wow!! We just passed 5,000 members! Go us! Please welcome our 5,000th member, FrayedDawn.

The Keepers of Time and Endurance by FrayedDawn

Some affiliate news:
Ornithologists is having their first contest! The theme is Birds and Food

HQ-AnimalAwareness is having a fun mini contest called Leap Year Leapers!

Whee, more #Birds-Club DDs!

February 14
In case you didn't notice, it is now time to vote in our "Emotions" contests! Please visit the voting forms below:
Photo Contest | Art Contest | Unknown Artists Contest

Our next Themed Week will start on February 20. According to our recent poll, the theme will be "Focus on Feathers"!

For those in North America, the Great Backyard Bird Count starts in three days! We hope you'll consider participating - for science!

Happy Valentine's Day!

February 7
Our Emotions contest deadline is February 10 - that's only three days away! Better submit quickly if you want to make it in! And make sure to follow all the rules so we can process the submissions faster! There seem to be a lot of commonly asked questions this time around, so I'll address them in this journal:

Re: How to vote - please do not worry about that yet! When it is time to vote, I will update the contest journals with an explanation on how to do it! It will be easy, I promise.

Re: How to submit to the contest folder - go to our Favourites, hit "Suggest a Fave", then select the contest folder from the dropdown menu!

Re: How to share a link - highlight the text in your address bar, hit Ctrl C on your keyboard to copy the text, select where you are typing, then hit Ctrl V to paste the link into the text box.

Bird-Photography's "Bird Portraits" winners have been declared - check them out here and at the bottom of this blog

Our members are so talented, check out these recent DDs!

February 1
Boy, time flies like a bird! It's already February!

Our Emotions contest deadline is coming up fast - get your entries in before February 10th!
Photo Contest - Art Contest - Unknown Artists Contest

February's BOTM will be the cuckoo.

Due to the high number of submissions we've had lately and the long wait time, we've lowered the submission limit back down to one submission per week.

Be sure to check out our December and January joint news features with Bird-Photography!

We've had two more member DDs!

AfricanValley is having a great contest called Endangered Africa - go check it out!

Hey look - our mod Fabs FForns and her husband AForns made it to the Canadian national news, along with a Great Grey Owl!