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[Birdconsv@xxxxxxx]

Those of us who have participated in the project recently received an email 
from the management folks at the Cornell Lab noting that participation is down 
this year with the season due to start this weekend.  My wife and I have been 
participants since the second year of the project, and have always found it 
rewarding. I'm sure that many of the VA-BIRD readers are already involved, but 
if not, please consider it, especially if you have feeders in a lightly-birded 
area (as is the case with us in Shenandoah County).  Pertinent contact 
information follows in a suggested notice sent along by the Lab.  Please don't 
reply 
to me; I don't run the program.  Thanks for reading this.

Dave Davis
Arlington

"Project FeederWatch needs your help to keep track of the birds at your 
feeders this winter. Count birds as often as two days each week from 
November 11 to April 6. Your counts will help scientists monitor changes 
in feeder bird populations. New participants receive a research kit with 
easy to follow instructions, the FeederWacther's handbook, a 
bird-identification poster, a calendar, and a subscription to the 
newsletter of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (U.S.) or Bird Studies 
Canada (Canada). For more information or to sign up in the U.S., please 
visit http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/ or call (800) 843-2473; if in 
Canada, please visit http://www.bsc-eoc.org/national/pfw.html or call 
(888) 448-2473. A $15 fee ($35 in Canada) makes the program possible."