Hi Tweets & Inlanders -
On Thursday, I sent out a note about this project to keep track of
Washington County year lists. In the interim, I've received a good
response signing up for some of the missing counties. In addition,
I've been appraised of 4 errors in my original posting -- 3 emails
were wrong and there was a mystery phone number included that came
out of nowhere. Sorry for the confusion - I should have proofed this
all a bit better. Here is the latest version of the contact list,
with new additions for: Chelan, Ferry, Garfield, Kittitas, Mason &
San Juan. We are still looking for compilers for : Columbia,
Klickitat, Lincoln, & Stevens....
Thanks again, and I'll keep the list posted of progress.

Matt

Eastern Washington:
Adams Randy Hill, hill AT smwireless.net
Asotin Keith Carlson, kec201814 AT cableone.net
Benton Bill & Nancy LaFramboise, billnanl AT verizon.net
Chelan Dan Stephens, DStephens AT wvc.edu
Columbia
Douglas Meredith Spencer, merdave AT homenetnw.net
Ferry Dan Owens, dan.owens AT starband.net
Franklin Bill & Nancy LaFramboise, billnanl AT verizon.net
Garfield Matt Dufort, zeledonia AT gmail.com
Grant Doug Schonewald, dschone8 AT donobi.net
Kittitas Diane Deleon-Monroe, dgmon AT eburg.com
Klickitat
Lincoln
Okanogan Libby & Victor Glick libbyvictor AT yahoo.com
Pend Oreille Gina Sheridan, gsherida8502 AT yahoo.com
Spokane Craig Corder, 2cbird AT hughes.net
Stevens
Walla Walla Mike and MerryLynn Denny, m.denny AT charter.net
Whitman Michael Woodruff, crazybirder98 AT hotmail.com
Yakima Denny Granstrand, dgranstrand AT charter.net

Western Washington:
Clallam Bob Boekelheide, rivercenter AT olympus.net
Clark Wilson Cady, gorgebirds AT juno.com
Cowlitz Margaret Green, jgreen2317 AT aol.com
Grays Harbor Ruth and Patrick Sullivan, godwit513 AT msn.com
Island Steve Ellis, sellis AT coup.wednet.edu
Jefferson Dan Waggoner Dan AT kingstonlumber.com
King Matt Bartels, mattxyz AT earthlink.net
Kitsap Brad Waggoner, wagtail AT sounddsl.com
Lewis Dave Hayden. dtvhm AT nwrain.com
Mason Tim O'Brien, kertim7179 AT yahoo.com
Pacific Alan Richards, mrm AT willapabay.org
Pierce Charlie Wright, c.wright7 AT comcast.net
San Juan Matt Dufort, zeledonia AT gmail.com
Skagit Gary Bletsch, garybletsch AT yahoo.com
Skamania Wilson Cady, gorgebirds AT juno.com
Snohomish Dennis Duffy Duffd44 AT aol.com
Thurston Bill Shelmerdine, georn1 AT hotmail.com
Wahkiakum Andrew Emlen, aceasp AT pacifier.net
Whatcom Joe Meche, Joemeche AT aol.com

[Thursday's message, for reference]

Hi all -
As you may have noticed on these lists, for 2007 there is an effort
underway to compile county year lists for all 39 Washington counties.
This was inspired by something similar folks have been doing in Idaho
for a while, and initiated last year on a smaller scale. These are
collaborative efforts, with each tally representing the collective
sightings for a county rather than any one individual's list. I think
it will be interesting to see how all this fits together into a
year-long picture of WA birds.

The way we've set things up, each county will have a point-person
who acts as compiler for that county. If you have any sightings you'd
like to contribute to the effort, please contact that compiler with
details. I'll include a list at the bottom of this message of the
county compilers we have lined up so far. The list is also available
at the following web-page: www.wos.org/CountyList.htm . This list
will be updated as we find more compilers to fill in the gaps.

For the heavily birded counties, it isn't really necessary to share
every sighting -- just the rarer ones are probably fine. But for the
counties where we see few reports on Tweeters, it may be helpful to
send entire trip lists along to the compiler.

I've recruited compilers of these lists for 29 counties, and am
hoping we'll find 10 more compilers willing to keep track of
sightings for the following. If you are interested in taking on the
compiling work for any of the following counties, please contact me --
Western WA: Mason, San Juan
Eastern WA: Chelan, Columbia, Ferry, Garfield, Kittitas, Klickitat,
Lincoln, Stevens.

In addition, we'd like to make the ongoing results of this available
on-line to share with anyone who is interested. Unfortunately, while
we've found webspace we lack anyone who knows how to create webpages.
If you'd like to offer to help set up the web-presence of this, just
say the word --


Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA
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