Tweets - I'd like some help on Wednesday May 16th for a different kind of Big
Day, or rather a Big Morning.

If you'll recall, we did a Big Sit last October, spending a day inside a
17-foot diameter circle, and seeing 36 species. The idea behind a Big Sit is
basically to be in one place across all times. It was interesting, but rather
unexciting.

Afterwards, I thought it might be better to be in ALL places at ONE time, and
that's what I'd like to try.

What I propose for the 16th is to have 5-10 birders (or more?) to bird 5
different routes at Marymoor simultaneously. Our best birding is always in the
first 2-3 hours, and we can only be in one place normally. But if we split
into 5 teams, all starting at 6:30 a.m....

I'd like to have people (or ideally teams of 2+) start at:
The usual spot on the usual route
The East Meadow on the usual route backwards
(or perhaps starting at the model airplane field)
The mansion area, eventually working north
along the slough
The rowing club, and then heading over the dog area
The lake platform working north along the slough
and heading into the interior part of the dog area.

Anyone interested, please contact me. My idea is that we would meet at 6:15 to
get "assignments" and we'd start at 6:30. You wouldn't have to stay more than
3 hours, though you certainly could. It would even be useful if you could only
stay two hours, and we can probably work something out if you can't be there
until 7:00 or so. And if you can't make the morning at all, I'd be interested
in any observations from any time of the day on 5/16.

Anyway, if anyone else thinks this might be fun, let me know. The 16th should
be the last great Wednesday of the spring migration pulse, and there should be
plenty to see. I think we could easily hit 60, 65, even 70 species, if
everything is favorable.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== Hummer at isomedia.com
== http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm