If anyone isn't taking part in the backyard bird count, please consider it. It's going on this weekend. You need 15 minutes a day to participate. Your "backyard" can be anywhere you want to bird. You can look out your window or get out and walk. It provides a 4-day snapshot of bird populations to Cornell, Audubon, and a Canadian partner, Bird Studies, Canada. It's simple, fun, and it provides good data. (answering Brainard's question: "where are the &^%$*&^!! snow buntings?") Check it out at http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ Steve Kistler Hart Co