Subject: Re: my two cents on CBC's
Date: Dec 07 14:45:29 1998
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 02:52 PM 12/7/98 -0800, Raymond Korpi wrote:

>I do know one thing--in the past four years running field trips for
>Portland Audubon, if I call a trip a "count" or a "Count primer" or
>"pre-count practice," my attendance goes down by 50 to 80 percent. A lot
>of people don't like the whole idea of counting, thinking it's overly
>scientific as it is, when the fact is when need people to drive, to tally,
>and to yell, "there's a bird,but I don't know what it is."

Do other chapters have similar experiences, in particular Seattle Audubon,
the other large urban chapter in the "tweets" area?



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