Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 08:57:09 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: World Series of Birding 2002 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The World Series of Birding, MOS, ANS, and the Breeding Bird Atlas: A Winning Combination! The Maryland Ornithological Society (MOS) and the Audubon Naturalist Society (ANS) have joined together this year to sponsor a World Series Team (the MOSpreys!). This is good news for both organizations because it means our expenses will be virtually cut in half but that all donations and pledges MOS is able to solicit will come entirely to MOS. Here's the makeup of our 2002 team: Hal Wierenga (team captain), Lynn Davidson, David Farner, Tom Feild, and Leo Weigant, all from the two separate teams of past years. The second piece of good news is that 2002 is the first year of a five-year data collection effort underlying a new Breeding Bird Atlas for Maryland. While many, many members of both MOS and ANS have already jumped on board as volunteers, money to fund this massive data collection effort will, as always, be tight. The MOS Executive Committee has decided to apply all pledges/donations made to MOS in support of the WSB team directly to the Atlas fund! So now it comes down to you. Please consider a pledge in support of the MOSpreys. You can pledge some amount per species seen (assume our team will see somewhere between 150 and 200 species), such as 50 cents, or a dollar, or any other amount that you can afford. You can also make a direct donation in support of the team. Send your pledges to me, Norm Saunders, at 1261 Cavendish Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20905-7030. If you want to make a donation, send me a check made out to the MOS. If you want to make your pledge online, e-mail me at marshhawk@att.net Thank you! Norm ============================ Norman C. Saunders Colesville, Montgomery County, MD marshhawk@att.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================