Don,

You wrote:

And I hang out with a lot of birders in their twenties, despite being
well...older. Meet most of them banding hawks so it is sort of a
self-selecting group that is certainly too biased to form any valid
sample fo that age group!


Know anybody who is looking for an extra pair of hands ? I moved over to Seattle lasy
June and have been looking for banding opportunities - sadly lacking so far. I have a full
banding licence from the British Trust for Ornithology, which I have held since 1987.

Yours in anticipation

Stuart