Tweeters is "updated" nearly instantaneously -- at any rate, much more
frequently than it would be practical for hotline tapes to be updated (or to
check for updates on hotline tapes for that matter). It would useful if folks
on tweeters who call in a rare/unusual bird (chaseable ones at least) to a
hotline [Seattle, Vancouver, eastern Wash hotlines, all of which are
indispensible resources] would post it to tweeters as well. Scott Ray's post a
couple of weeks ago re the Black-throated Sparrow at Point No Point was a good
example of the potential tweeters has for rapid communication. The Oregonians
seem to do a lot of this with their *obol*.


Just a thought.


Also, I wonder if there would be sufficient interest to put a Washington State
Audubon Soc. (or SAS) forum on the net, a la tweeters (or is it already?).
Certainly there is a sufficient number of issues to be discussed.


David Wright
dwright at u.washington.edu