{Note: I've been having a mail problem, so if this email has odd
characters scattered throughout, my apologies.}

I haven't posted on this topic, because I don't have time to actually
contribute anything to the effort, but what the heck:

I have the first tweeters T-shirt, and it is one of my favorites. It has
one of the nicest T-shirt designs I've seen. One of the then-tweeters
designed it. According to the T-shirt, it was D. Takahashi. Is she still
on tweeters? I've never thought of it as a way to ID tweeters in the
field; I just like the T-shirt. I'd never take the time to sew on a patch;
a pin would not be visible from a distance and I'd never bother with one
anyway; and if I wear a cap, it's usually a hunter orange cap. I'd
definitely purchase another T-shirt, though, and since the first batch sold
out, a second batch would probably be a safer financial gamble. In fact,
since WOS does WOS T-shirts and other items, maybe they could handle the
arrangements and keep the profits? (Just a thought; not trying to make
unwanted work for someone.)

The old design features birds with prominent yellow colors arranged in a
circle (sort a bird wreath) on a green background. There's a Western
Meadowlark, American Goldfinch, Common Yellowthroat, Y-breasted Chat, and
Townsend's Warbler. (Gosh, I hope I IDed them all correctly!) The birds are
colored in yellow, black, white, and green stripes on yellow (to simulate
gray, I think). The wreath the birds are on is composed of Northwest
plants, and the birds are even sitting on an appropriate plant. The
goldfinch is on a thistle, the T. Warbler is on a conifer branch (fir, I
think), the chat is on a blackberry branch, the yellowthroat is on something
that looks like Spirea. The Meadowlark is sitting on a stump, with
something behind him that I ought to
recognize. "Tweeters" is in yellow across the top with the web page URL,
and "Northwest Birders Chat Group" is below the wreath.

To get to the point, I think it'd be great to have the same theme, but with
a different background color, with a different set of birds and plants
featured, e.g., a yellow background with birds with blue in them. That
would maintain the continuity of the concept and the artist wouldn't have to
come up with a new idea, but would have the freedom to choose the birds and
plants he/she wanted.

Volunteers?
Kelly Cassidy
Seattle, WA
mailto:lostriver at seanet.com