Hi friends of Friends of Sax-Zim Bog!
The Big Half Year participants are ramping up their efforts as spring approaches and you can help us by pledging them! Pledge lump sum or on a per-species basis. Take a look at all the interesting web pages of the individual birder/photographers here: http://bighalfyear.dojiggy.com/ng/index.cfm/b22d876/regPages/pages/?p=111601 AND IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE! (Giving away in a drawing two pairs of $500 value Eagle Optics binoculars) CHECK OUT THESE INTERESTING BIG YEAR CONCEPTS... **Dave Benson "Primitive Peat" is doing a Laurentian Mixed Forest ecosystem Big Half Year **Lars Benson (Dave's son) is out to raise more money than his dad by motivating people with his goal of 260 to 280 species!! **Dave Steininger and Lori Williams are counting birds at their home and cabin. Lori says Dave can't count his "flying" Gray Squirrels! **Shawn Conrad is sticking to his beloved Itasca County...and racking up a great list. **Sharon Stiteler is seeing how many species she can digiscope in N America...Go bird chick! **Kim Eckert is getting pledges based on his Minnesota Birding Weekends trips...They were up to 295 species as of Feb 7th! **The little "Beaster girls" formed their 3 Red Robins team and will see what birds they can find at their grandparents homes in MN, WI, and AZ. **Mike Hendrickson made a blog to chronicle his Big Half Year then linked to it on his page. Great idea! **Yours truly made a Google+ album so I could post all my favorite bird photos from the Big Half Year. THANK YOU FROM "OWL" OF US IN THE BOG! Sparky Stensaas executive director Friends of Sax-Zim Bog PO Box 3585 Duluth MN 55803 218.341.3350 cell sparkystens...@hotmail.com www.SaxZim.org ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
