Hello fellow tweets,

Today is the last day of the Fall reporting period (August 1 - November
30) and time for me to request your bird sightings from that period.
Ryan Merrill (FieldNotes at wos.org) compiles records for WOS Field Notes.
Doug Schonewald (dschone8 at donobi.net) and I keep tabs of unusual bird
sightings for North American Birds. Doug tallies birds east of the
Cascade Crest and I tabulate sightings on the Westside. To be clear, an
"Unusual Sighting" could be any of the following:

1) rare species (either a state rarity or a bird rare in a particular
locality, e.g. Gray Catbird on Bainbridge Island)
2) early or late dates for migrants
3) high-number counts for any species

To keep reporting as simple as possible, you can send reports via e-mail
to any one of the three of us, since we routinely share the reports.
Please include the species seen, number recorded, place recorded, and
any other interesting information. We will make sure the reports end up
in the right venue. Please send reports by December 15th.

The Fall Reporting Period will mark the first reporting period since
August, 2000, that Tom Aversa will be spared the arduous task of
compiling all our bird reports. Working with him during the past two
years has given me a glimpse of the countless hours Tom has put into the
WOS Field Notes. He has done an outstanding job over these past nine
years, producing an invaluable and informative record of the seasonal
variations in Washington State's avifauna. On behalf of the Washington
State birding community I would like to say, "Thank you, Tom, for a job
well done!"

Fortunately, Tom has passed the torch into the capable hands of Ryan
Merrill. Welcome aboard, Ryan.

Thanks and good birding,

Brad Waggoner
Bainbridge Island
mailto:wagtail at sounddsl.com