Hi all!

BREAKING YardBirdRace NEWS:

Lawson tops South Queen Anne record with 34 including Yellow Warbler & Warbling Vireo.

Hoskin ties it up in Ballard with 51 including a heard Common Nighthawk.

Danzinger dispenses with the old ClarkCo and Battleground before the halfway mark in the year: 99 includes White-breasted Nuthatch & Tundra Swan.

Bainbrige (Linda, that is) is at 61 in Acreage-Freeland with Calliope Hummingbird, House Wren, & Cassin's Vireo.

Flynn/Benevente with 70 in West Seattle including Western Screech Owl are putting the Residential- Seattle record in of 74 in grave danger.

Huggins is at 71 on Vashon with White-throated Sparrow & Kestrel, and also needs only four to tie record.

Brook is blazing in Brier with 59, eight short of the mark. Brook has Western Screech Owl & Kestrel.

Two-time Seattle R winners Hoffman/Marrazzo have Lazuli Bunting in Upper Rainier Beach.

Tubbs has 57 in a ?working yard? (where he works) in Redmond with help from a Brewer?s Sparrow & Northern Shrike.

Eagan has 80 in Port Ludlow, Bletch 78 in upper Skagit, including Golden Eagle.

Daniels & Steiner in outer Auburn have the first reported Ringed Turtle Dove of the YardBirdRace and a Great Horned Owl; trail Pendleton, with a Turkey Vulture, by 10.

Some numbers may need updating already.



Consider joining the YardBirdRace! Prizes include subs to the superb WASHINGTON BIRDER quarterly, year-long membership in important bird conservation organizations such as the AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY, BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL or your local Audubon Society and hopefully, Violet-green Swallow boxes.

Don?t worry if you have a low total number of birds?this can be a sign that you are a good birder just as having a high total can be a sign you are a good birder. To acknowledge that paradox, Everyone gets a prize in the YardBirdRace!

Many cities, neighborhoods and towns have no YardBirdRacers at the moment: this is a chance to get in on the ground floor of the record books!



To join, email yardbirdrace at yahoo.com with the number of birds you?ve seen in or FROM your yard since Jan 1 2007.

To see the leaderboard and rules go to:


http://www.ednewbold.com/yardbird.htm

To see the current press release go to

http://www.ednewbold.com/links.htm




Thanks everyone, Ed Newbold at ednewbold1 at yahoo.com in residential Seattle where we are again lucky to have nesting Barn & Violet-green Swallows.


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