Your For the Birds Money may be better spent on many
of the local Audubon Chapters. Pilchuck is top notch.

Larry Schwitters
Issaquah


> On Sep 28, 2023, at 9:32 AM, jimbetz at jimbetz.com wrote:

>

> Hi,

>

> I'm talking about the -endless- stream of emails asking for money

> from Audubon. I'm getting more than one a day - probably more like

> three or four. And they are -all- phrased as a "crisis" with very

> little if any difference in the sense of urgency from one appeal to

> the next.

>

> Yes, I know how to simply delete them - and I'm doing that.

>

> But the thing is that Audubon has become a "constant source of

> irritation" ... and that makes me 'automatically delete and forget'.

> I don't think that is the intent of their requests - I think they

> genuinely want us to contribute and that they genuinely see the

> need ... and urgency. But the effect of their emails, to me at

> least, is to treat Audubon as just one more money-grubbing

> company that wants to make money. Audubon gets paid - more

> than you might think of any contribution we make ends up in

> Audubon's pockets rather than getting to the actual organizations

> that help our birds.

>

> Sorry for the rant. I know your time is precious to you and

> reading stuff like this is something you'd rather not have to

> spend it on.

>

> - go out and do some birding and ignore me ... Jim

>

> P.S. There are excellent -local- organizations that I do give

> money to ... they also have their hands out a little more

> often than I'd like but at least the amount of their

> 'load' is considerably less than any national level

> organization (like Audubon). And, yes, I do give some

> money to Audubon - from time to time - just not 365 days

> a year multiplied by how ever many emails I'm getting

> from them.

>

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