Subject: (off topic) Lawson jumps to early lead in Seattle yardbirdrace
Date: Sep 22 12:24:50 2004
From: newboldwildlife at netscape.net - newboldwildlife at netscape.net



News Release:

Rachel Lawson of lower Queen Anne has jumped to an early lead with a total of 60 species in the Residential category of the 1st Annual 2004 Seattle Year-Yard List Competition. But she doesn?t expect her lead to survive if a new wave of entrants is generated by this post.

Along with more entries in residential, competition organizer Ed Newbold is also hoping for any entries at all in Class W (water view), Class G (adjoining greenbelt) and Class M (multifamily) and for many neighborhoods which have no entrants. ?I hate to admit it,? says Ed, ?but right now you could look out the window, see a Starling and a Crow, and be leading in any of these categories, ?

The Competition will be advertised in November?s Earthcare Northwest, newsletter of the Seattle Audubon Society.

In case anyone missed the 1st post about this, here are the specs of the Seattle Yard Year List competition:





The requirements for entry in the 2004 1st Annual Seattle Yard-Year list Competition are:
1. The yard must be inside the Seattle city limits (Sorry, I couldn?t see how ?yard? could be defined if it included more rural areas)

2. The entrant is willing to allow their phone number, optional email address, and general location of yard to be disclosed to the media in press releases, as well as the yard-list itself. The entrant would be willing to be interviewed by the press if the press were interested enough to call (by no means a given). This could be either after December 31 2004 when results would be official, or before.

3. The entrant should e-mail me at newboldwildlife at netscape.net or call me at 206 767 7169 with current list total (I?d love to see the list also, although they aren?t required at this point) plus class of entry (see below) and neighborhood as soon as possible. The participant will e-mail the list of species seen to me if and when it?s needed.



Yards would be entered in one of four classes:

Class W: yard with reasonably close salt or fresh water view

Class G: yard adjoining greenbelt

Class R: pure single family residential

Class M: condo or apartment in multifamily, commercial or industrial


Neighborhoods can have winners also, so don?t be reluctant to enter just because you think your yard list might be on the low side: it might be the highest in your neighborhood.

Prizes

Prize for entering: 14 x 18 backed and wrapped Shade Coffee poster which retails for $16 from my store next to the newsstand at the market at First and Pike (#1 Economy Arcade). This prize is will call only?(you must pick it up at the store, any time in 2004 or 2005).


Winner?s Prizes: Class W -- Your choice of a paid two- year sub for you or a friend to WA Birder or Earthcare Northwest; plus a $25 gift certificate to my store, (Ed Newbold Wildlife Artist) ; plus $150 gift to the International Bird Conservancy in your name

Class G-- same as prizes for Class W but the conservation gift is $75 gift to Skagit Land Conservancy and $75 to Inland Land Trust Reardon Pond acquisition effort in your name

Class C same as prizes for Class W but conservation gift is $75 gift to American Bird Conservancy, & $75 gift to Seattle Audubon Society in your name

Class D same as prizes for Class W but conservation gift is $75 gift to Rainforest Action Network, & $75 gift to Nature Conservany in your name

Top 4 Neighborhood winners: free book, Landscaping for Wildlife in the Northwest, by Russell Link (winner will call or we?ll ship)


Yardbird definition: any bird seen or heard from the yard. Thus if you heard or saw a bird while in your yard but had to walk several blocks away from your yard to identify it, that would count. A bird seen only one door away while you are headed home wouldn?t count, unless you could get to your yard and still see or hear it.

Please let any birders who keep a yard list but aren?t on Tweeters or who aren?t reading it every day know about this and contact me at 206 767 7169.




Again, please enter by emailing me at newboldwildlife at netscape.net or calling me at 206 767 7169. Tell me what number of species you?re at now for the year 2004, your name, your phone number, what class your yard falls into and what neighborhood you live in and if possible describe generally where in that neighborhood you are, and (optional) your address. Be prepared to supply the list if & when needed.

P.S. "off topic" in subject line was inserted at the suggestion of the owner of this list when I pre-screened this subject. In this vein, I?ll refrain from posting about this for at least a month now.

Ed Newbold tweeter by digest residential Beacon Hill between the fruit stand and Cleveland, last best yard bird a Black Headed Grosbeak on Monday, newboldwildlife at netscape.net




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