I tried to think of any northwestern birds that might be abreviated PABU,
but couldn't think of any. It seems like an exciting sighting (even though
it is a female). I'd like to encourage people to continue to spell out
names (this one would take 11 more charachters for the whole message
including both text and subject line) so that Tweeters can continue to be
accessable and easilly readable for the majority of subscribers that don't
read code and the rest of us that haven't memorized code for birds not
normally seen in the tweeters area.

If we want to have more people loving nature, advocating for it and
stewarding it I believe we should strive to make it accessable to a maximum
number of people. I would continue to encourage people to minimize the
degree to which people may become intimidated by not understanding our
language.

Stewart Wechsler
Ecological Consulting
West Seattle
206 932-7225
ecostewart at quidnunc.net

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Subject: [Tweeters] PABU near Victoria

Greetings All

I just received the following message.

I thought I would pass along info on a female Painted Bunting currently
visiting a feeder in Brentwood Bay just north of Victoria. ...
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