Subject: Young birders (was Sunday birding trip)
Date: Jan 17 11:01:35 1997
From: Kelly Cassidy - kelly at cqs.washington.edu



> Hi!
>
> This is Dean's class reporting about the Sunday Birding trip. Some
>
> We recently had our binoculors fixed so they would work for the
> birding trip. We went to a place called "Close Scientific Instruments,"

Binoculars, singular? For a class? A while back, there was a discussion
about how birders tend to be from the ummmm... more mature age groups,
and was there a way to encourage younger birders? Perhaps SAS or
even Tweeters could start a fund specifically to supply binos and
field guides for schools.

Kelly Cassidy