Stuart:
>There are very few birds here during winter, however spring and
>fall migration are an absolute bonanza with tens of thousands of
>birds on the coast - yippee !!!!

I consider you to be our tweeters agent on the east coast, Stuart.
Keep notes and please post ongoing migration events to tweeters,
especially the masses of shorebirds I've read so much about!

5 inches of snow and it's falling hard, right here in Stumptown...it's
a computer kind of day.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>