Greetings All: The Lubbock County CBC will be held on 20 December 2014. Participants will meet with their team leaders at 7:30 AM, teams will bird until 5:00 PM (some teams will be birding for shorter periods of time), and folk will meet up at my place for a potluck supper and countdown at 5:00 PM - countdown to start promptly at 6:00 PM. Each team will have an experienced leader and birders of all ages and all experience levels are welcome AND useful. I have the team leaders I need at this point but still need counters; particularly for the in-town teams. Currently I have: Team 1 - Eastern edge & Ransom Lake - Justin Bosler, David Bush Team 2 - City Farms - Anthony Hewetson Team 3 - V8 Ranch and Buffalo Springs Lake - Cameron Carver, Craig Carver Team 4 - The South - Byron Buckley, Lisa Clark Team 5 - The Northwest Corner - Rob Lee, Manuel De Leon Team 6 - Canyon Lakes - Phillip Kite, Peter Keyel, Ellen Hildebrandt Team 7 - In the Loop, East - William Wenthe, Janice Whittington, Colleen Martin, Gerardo Sandoval Team 8 - In the Loop, West - Tom Dolan, Doug Aldrige, Jan Jannett The Muleshoe NWR CBC will be held on 21 December 2014. Participants will meet at Muleshoe NWR headquarters at 7:30 PM, teams will bird until about noon, and folk will meet up back at headquarters for a potluck lunch and countdown at noon. This count looks to be in good shape, participant-wise but more are welcome. Currently I have: Team 1 - Paul's Lakes - Anthony Hewetson, Ellen Hildebrandt Team 2 - HQ & White Lakes - Phillip Kite, Doug Aldridge, Justin Bosler, Jim Crites, Jan Jannett Team 3 - Goose Lakes and Rim - Cameron Carver, Craig Carver, Manuel De Leon, Peter Keyel Team 4 - Atop the Rim - Rob Lee, Tom Dolan The White River Lake CBC will be held on 3 January 2015. We meet up at the White River Lake Marina at 7:30 AM, bird until 4:30 or so, and then have a hot supper and countdown at the marina. I now have enough team leaders but could really use at least two more partipants. Currently I have: Team 1 - The Eastern Edge - Anthony Hewetson, Ellen Hildebrandt Team 2 - The Great White North - Rich Kostecke Team 3 - The Lake, East Side - Phillip Kite, Colleen Martin, Gerardo Sandoval Team 4 - The Lake, West Side - Rob Lee, Manuel De Leon, Doug Aldridge Team 5 - The Western Edge - Justin Bosler Every team will have an experienced leader and every team could use as many eyes, ears, and hands as can be had. Birders at all experience levels are needed and birders at all experience levels will be, as mentioned before, useful. If you are interested in participating, let me know. If you need more information, let me know. Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson CBC Compiler Lllano Estacado Audubon Society fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx 806-252-1213 Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner