Hi Folks:
The GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT starts on Friday, and runs for 4 days total, Friday through Monday this Presidents' Day Weekend. Count birds in your parks, backyard, or wildlife areas. Send in your results to the website below. Sponsored by Audubon and Cornell.
Yours, Carol Schulz
DesMoines, WA
linusq at att.net
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From: citizenscience at audubon.org
To: linusq at att.net
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:02 AM
Subject: Great Backyard Bird Count begins Friday

Great Backyard Bird Count--Friday, February 18, through Monday, February 21




Greetings from Audubon and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology,

Just a reminder that the Great Backyard Bird Count begins this Friday and continues through Monday. We hope you'll count birds at your favorite locations on any or all of the count days and enter your tallies at http://birdsource.org/GBBC . Please ask your friends to join is as well. As data pour in from around the United States and Canada, you'll be able to see how your sightings are contributing to a continental picture showing where the birds this year, and how this year's picture compares with previous counts.

NEW THIS YEAR:

* We've made it easy this year to download tally sheets in case you'd like to print them out in advance and mark them up during the count. Just go to http://gbbc.birdsource.org/gbbcApps/checklist.

* After you've entered your data, you'll have the option to receive an email summary of the counts you just submitted--a nice keepsake if you participate year after year.

* Get your cameras out and send us your photos! We're launching a new photo gallery of images from Great Backyard Bird Count participants. To learn how to submit photos to be considered for inclusion, visit http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/gallery/gallery.html.

* To celebrate this year's theme, "North America's Great Backyard," we encourage you to visit your national parks and other public lands during the GBBC. This year, you can choose to enter your data by town, postal code, or national public lands--including national parks and forests, provincial parks, wildlife refuges, and air force bases.

* Thanks to all of you who sent us your names as media contacts for your area. We have put reporters in touch with many of you over the past week and will continue to do so as other requests come in. Thank you for sharing the GBBC with your community!

Best wishes for an enjoyable and memorable Great Backyard Bird Count. We'll look forward to seeing what you've found.

Sincerely,

Paul Green, Director of Citizen Science, Audubon

Ron Rohrbaugh, Interim Director of Citizen Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology