Subject: Four Letter Codes
Date: Dec 8 01:03:05 1996
From: Hughbirder at aol.com - Hughbirder at aol.com


I enjoyed the comments I stirred up by my e-mail message. I was using the
codes presented in Vol. 3, Dec. 1994 of Washington Birds as Hal Opperman
mentioned. I started using the codes when that issue came out. I entered
bird sightings in my field trip notebook using the code as it was a lot
faster. Since I sometimes forget the name of the bird in reviewing my
notes, it is easy to go into the bird book index and determine what it was
because the last two letters of the code are the first two letters of the
bird's last name.

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA