Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:53:48 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Betsie Baer Subject: World Series of Birding MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello everyone you may know that for the past 4 years I have = participated in the World Series of Birding in NJ on a youth team. Up = to this year I never really raised any money for the birding community. = But this year I am making it my obligation to raise $1,000 for Pickering = Creek Audubon Center. It is located just north of Easton. The center = is directly involved with the local school system and every student in = it gets an oppurunity to learn about there local wildlife including = birding and bluebird monitoring. I am writing this post to ask anyone = who would like to pledge our team per bird that we see on our big day. = This year our team will be doing the whole state and could expect totals = as high as 200 species. I am the only birder from Maryland on my team = so only the money I raise will go to Pickering since the other team = members have organizations of their own to support. If you interested in = sponsoring the "Coastal Cuckoo's" (that's our team name) then send me an = e-mail off listerv at bbaer@intercom.net. Thanks everyone for = supporting the birding community. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================