Tweets and Inland-NW birders,
The board of the Washington Ornithological Society decided to make a couple of important decisions this year. The first is a move that will encourage membership. We have introduced a student membership category to encourage anybody in school to join WOS at the discounted rate of 10.00 off the current yearly membership rate. This category is intended for anybody through college that is currently a student. The second category is for people who don't want to have to remember to renew their yearly WOS membership. The "Lifetime" membership is currently set at 500.00 which pays for Twenty Years of membership at the current rate of 25.00 per year. In addition to not having to remember to renew dues, it also locks in your membership rate should dues increase over the next 20 years. Both will be available through the Paypal option on wos.org and printed on the back of the next newsletter.

The second major change came from this weekend's meeting. Jane Hadley helped to push WOS into the current wave of digital blitz... Twitter. That's right, in addition to Tweeters, WOS is now on "Twitter". Here is the link to follow WOS on Twitter: http://twitter.com/WOS_Birding To follow WOS it would be at WOS_Birding. Apparently somebody beat us to the punch of just "WOS".

Here are a few posts Jane put up today if people want to check them out. The board envisions that this can be a timely updates on WOS happenings.

Find out how to order a copy of A Birder's Guide to Washington by Hal Opperman and other books at http://wos.org/publications.htm about 1 hour ago via web
Young Birders: If u need help to attend a birding program, u could get $ help from Patrick Sullivan Young Birders Fund. Check http://wos.org about 1 hour ago via web
Great articles on ebird, birdnotes.net and county listing at Washington Birder in the WOSNews -- Issue #126 April/May 2010. about 1 hour ago via web
Woo hoo! Looks as if we could have 130 to 140 at WOS Conference in Wenatchee in June. Board toured Red Lion yesterday. Looks good! about 1 hour ago via web
Checklists of birds for Washington state, North America and the world are available at http://wos.org/checklists.htm

Finally in regards to the upcoming WOS conference. If you still want to book rooms at the Red Lion, they only have a few of our reserved block left and remaining rooms will be released to the general public on May 15, so hurry if you still want a room here.

Scott Downes
downess at charter.net
Yakima WA