Garden Wildlife UK

I've updated the site and fixed the email (hurrah!).

Hi All,

I've been away over Christmas and we ran out of server space.
All fixed now.

I've paid for an upgrade and we have 20x more space than we had before so we should be future proofed for a good while.

Over the next day or two I'm going to do an upgrade and see if I can fix a couple of things ...

Sorry, only just spotted this.

The new posts page shows anything new since you last visited.
I've never fully understood active topics but I think it's anything in the last 7 days regardless of whether you visited or not.

Sorry for the late reply I've been having a couple of weeks off.

Imgur unfortunately have blocked the UK, I think due to the online safety act. It's affected a lot of UK based forums I read.

Luckily, imgbb still works fine as an alternative.

They're really furry up close

IMG_6442 by Kevin Clark, on Flickr

I took this one at Alveston Manor, Derbyshire.
It was about 10-15ft directly above me in the sunlight

Imgur is a free picture hosting site. You don't need to sign up for an account unless you want to keep track of every image. They stay accessible forever. If there are no views of a picture for 6 months however, it will be deleted.

Go to the site and then simply drag your picture to anywhere on ...

Germain wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 11:42 am I might need a step by step guide on how to do that - the other question is do you get flooded with ads with imgur ?

Happy to do that. I'll have some time over the weekend.

You don't need to sign up to it at all so no ads, no spam etc.

I certainly don't want people to stop showing their pictures. But server space costs money. If everyone attached hundreds of pictures we wouldn't survive. If they're simply uploaded to another site and linked, it costs us nothing. Every forum is like that, even the RSPB one.

One thing you can do if ...

We're VERY close to our server limits.

We're running at 90+% on server space but there is 50mb of headroom on the attachment quota which is a reasonable amount. It's been 350Mb total for several years.

I'll up it a little bit and remove some of the oldest ones on the list.
I tend to use an image ...