[EBB Sightings] North American Birds Fall Reminder

December 1, 2008

Dear North American Birds Contributors,

The fall season has already come to a close so please send your noteworthy records from the Northern California Region for the period 1 August ? 30 November to the appropriate Subregional Editors (see below) or to the Regional Editors by 10 December.


Please pay special attention to the format example given at the end of this message. Reports that are formatted properly make our job far easier. In particular, it is important to note that there is a single tab between species, date, etc. 

PLEASE use Subregional Editors for the counties that have them.  These SREs painstakingly keep track of records within their counties and are in most cases THE source of information on the birds of their counties.  By sending your records to the SREs, you are helping to contribute to their county files as well as to North American Birds.  If you wish to send copies to the Regional Editors, we welcome them, but please send records through the SREs as well.  If you have a noteworthy winter sighting from a county without a Subregional Editor, please send records to the Regional Editors below.

Records of loons-frigatebirds and larids-alcids go to Steve Rottenborn at:
H.T. Harvey & Associates
983 University Ave., Bldg. D
Las Gatos, CA 95032
srottenborn at harveyecology.com


Records of waterfowl through quail and herons through shorebirds go to Mike Rogers at:
499 Novato Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94086	
m.m.rogers at comcast.net


Records of doves through thrushes/Wrentit (in the new AOU order that includes vireos and shrikes) go to Steve Glover at:
6526 Conestoga Lane
Dublin, CA 94568                          
countylines at sbcglobal.net


Records of thrashers to finches go to Ed Pandolfino at:
5530 Delrose Court
Carmichael, CA 95608
erpfromca at aol.com
	
	


SUBREGIONAL EDITORS

Alameda		    	    			 
Bob Richmond			  		 
24650 Amador St. #15	   	  	 
Hayward, CA 94544	    		
Brichmond94544 at earthlink.net
	
Alpine, Calaveras & Modoc
John Sterling 
29 Palm Ave.
Woodland, CA 95695
jsterling at wavecable.com

Amador & El Dorado
Tim Steurer	
4042 Bancroft Dr.
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762-6933
tsteurer at hotmail.com

Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter, Tehama, Yuba
Bruce Deuel
18730 Live Oak Road
Red Bluff, CA 96080
bdeuel at wildblue.net

Contra Costa							
Steve Glover					
6526 Conestoga Lane					
Dublin CA 94568		              		
countylines at sbcglobal.net

Del Norte
Alan D. Barron	
1093 Hwy 101 N. #18
Crescent City, CA 95531
flockfinder at yahoo.com

Fresno
Gary W. Potter
2183 Walton Ave
Sanger, CA 93657 
gwpott at aol.com

Humboldt
Rob Fowler
2277 Heather Lane, Apt. D
Arcata, CA 95521
migratoriusfwlr at gmail.com
											
Kings
Luke Cole
561 Hill Street					
San Francisco, CA  94114				
luke at igc.org

Lake
Jerry R. White
P.O. Box 113
Kelseyville, CA 95451
grwhite at jps.net

Lassen
Brad Stovall
Stovall Associates
P.O. Box 4413
Chico, CA 95927
Bmspi1 at aol.com

Madera
Jeff Davis
11238 N Via Trevisio Way
Fresno, CA 93730
jndavis at ucsc.edu

Marin
Ryan Terrill
1619 El Dorado Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
enicurus at yahoo.com

Mariposa
David Vander Pluym
1683 Buena Vista St. 
Ventura, CA 93001  
SCRE at aol.com

Mendocino					
Bob Keiffer						
P. O. Box 354						
Hopland CA 95449					
rjkeiffer at ucdavis.edu

Merced and San Benito
Kent Van Vuren
26 Vista Dr.
Salinas, CA 93907
vanvurenk at aol.com

Mono
Kristie Nelson
P.O. Box 402	
Lee Vining, CA 93541
storm_petrel at hotmail.com

Monterey			
Don Roberson			
282 Grove Acre			
Pacific Grove CA 93950		
831-373-2566fax			
creagrus at montereybay.com

Napa 
Murray Berner
210 Monte Vista
Napa, CA 94558
(707) 224-5897
vireocity at hotmail.com

Nevada
Rudy Darling
12143 Big Blue Road
Nevada City, CA 95959
rdarling at sbbmail.com

Placer
Ed Pandolfino
5530 Del Rose Court
Carmichael, CA  95608
erpfromca at aol.com

Plumas & Sierra
John "Mac" McCormick
1230 Dog Leg Dr.
Chico, CA 95928
macmc94123 at earthlink.net

Sacramento
Chris Conard
2405 Rio Bravo Circle
Sacramento, CA  95826
conardc at gmail.com

San Francisco (mainland)		
The City: Mark Eaton 
1524 36th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
mweaton at pacbell.net 

San Francisco (Farallons)
Jim Tietz
P.O. Box 751
Arcata, CA, 95518
jmtietz at yahoo.com

San Joaquin
Frances Oliver
1817 Songbird Place
Lodi, CA  95240
Hummer52 at sbcglobal.net

San Mateo
Peter J. Metropulos
2940 Turk Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94118
pjmetrop at pacbell.net

Santa Clara			
William G. Bousman		
321 Arlington Way		
Menlo Park CA 94025		
barlowi at earthlink.net

Santa Cruz
David Suddjian and Steve Gerow
801 Monterey Ave.
Capitola, CA 95010
DSUDDJIAN at aol.com
Stephengerow at aol.com

Shasta							
Bob Yutzy						
P. O. Box 990237				
Redding CA 96099				
boby at c-zone.net
	
Siskiyou 
Ray Ekstrom
2209 Delphic Rd.
Montague, CA 96064

Solano
Robin Leong
336 Benson Ave.
Vallejo, CA 94590-3027
robin_leong at netzero.net

Sonoma
Ruth Rudesill
P.O. Box 371
Kenwood, CA 95452
ruthier at sonic.net

Stanislaus			
Harold Reeves
birder at sbcglobal.net

Trinity
John E. Hunter
P.O. Box 4483
Arcata, CA 95518
jhunter323 at aol.com

Tulare
Steven Summers
2553 W. Michelle Ln.
Porterville, CA 93257
summers at ocsnet.net

Tuolumne
Steven Umland
15818 Parkridge Ave.
Sonora, CA 95370
sumland at skywayusa.net

Yolo
Roger Adamson
2213 Catalina Dr.
Davis, CA 95616
rhadamson at ucdavis.edu

The Reporting Deadlines are:
                   	Spring      Summer      Fall       Winter

Season ends         May 31      July 31     Nov 30     Feb 28

Observer reports to Subregional Editors (SREs)
                  	June 10     Aug 10      Dec 10     Mar 10

Observer reports to Regional Editors (if not sent to SRE)
                   	June 10     Aug 10      Dec 10     Mar 10

SRE reports to Regional Editors
                   	June 20     Aug 20      Dec 20     Mar 20

Regional Editors final text to ABA office
                   	July 10     Sep 10       Jan 10      Apr 10

PLEASE meet your deadlines so that we can meet our deadlines!


Please send reports in our preferred order: species, date(s) [including year], locale, co. abbrev., number of birds, and observer, and then, on a second line, any comments.  Please separate these sections by a "tab" (except just a space between locale and county abbreviation) on electronic versions submitted.  Again, here's an example of the correct format:

Grace's Warbler	12/13/98-2/20/99  	Jacks Peak MTY  	1	RFT, mob
   A second record for the Region (the first was 6/26/91 at Deer Spring, Glass Mt. MNO) which wintered with a large flock of Townsend's & Hermit warblers at the very top of Jacks Peak in Jacks Peak Regional Park. Details by Tintle and others are enclosed. 

Many observers and Subregional Editors have been submitting their reports by e-mail.  PLEASE submit electronic reports if possible.  We are trying to maintain an electronic database of at least recent records, and we hope to be able to have all old data entered eventually so that the entire database will be easily accessible to anyone who wants it.  Electronic submission of records in the format described above makes it much easier for us maintain this electronic database.

We've heard questions about, comments on, and criticism of our regional reports from several observers and SREs.  We really appreciate this feedback, as it helps us to better represent what is going on in the Region as a whole.  Please help us correct any factual errors we make, and don't hesitate to let us know what you think of the reports.

Many thanks to all the contributors and Subregional Editors who make these reports possible!

Sincerely,


Ed Pandolfino, Mike Rogers, Steve Rottenborn, and Steve Glover

(Northern California Regional Editors)