[EBB Sightings] North American Birds Reminder Fall 2005

Hello all,
Below is the quarterly reminder for North American
Birds. Apologies for the loss of hyperlinks for the
email addresses and the loss of format at the bottom.
A cleaner version can be viewed on Joe Morlan's
website at http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/afn.html

December 1, 2005

Dear North American Birds Contributors,

The fall season has already come to a close so please
send your noteworthy records from the Middle Pacific
Coast 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
Scott Terrill at:                                     
  

H.T. Harvey & Associates
3150 Almaden Expwy., Suite 145
San Jose, CA 95118
sterrill at harveyecology.com


Records of herons to 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 Luke Cole at:
	     
561 Hill Street					
San Francisco, CA  94114			
luke at igc.org
	


SUBREGIONAL EDITORS

Alameda		    	    			 
Bob Richmond			  		 
24650 Amador St. #15	   	  	 
Hayward, CA 94544	    		
Brichmond94544 at earthlink.net
	
Alpine, Calaveras & Modoc
John Sterling 
26 Palm Ave
Woodland, CA 95695
ani at cal.net 

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 dfg.ca.gov

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
David Fix and Jude Claire Power
P.O. Box 4331
Arcata, CA 95518
dfxjcp at humboldt1.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
Tim Manolis
808 El Encino Way
Sacramento, CA 95864
ylightfoot at aol.com

Madera
Jeff Davis
30705 Pennyroyal Lane
Prather, CA 93651
jndavis at netptc.net

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

Nevada
Brian Williams
8200 Turner Dr.
Granite Bay, CA 95746
bwcal at sprynet.com

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

Plumas & Sierra
John "Mac" McCormick
2351 Filbert St.
Apt. #102
San Francisco, CA 94123
macmc94123 at aol.com

Sacramento and Yolo
Chris Conard
2405 Rio Bravo Circle
Sacramento, CA  95826
chris.conard at comcast.net

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

San Joaquin
David G. Yee
11707 N. Alpine Rd.
Lodi, CA 95240
davidyee at lycnet.com

San Mateo
Peter J. Metropulos
2940 Turk Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94118
pjmetrop at aol.com

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

Santa Cruz
David Suddjian
801 Monterey Ave.
Capitola, CA 95010
DSUDDJIAN 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

Sonoma
Ruth Rudesill
P.O. Box 371
Kenwood, CA 95452
rar at pcweb.net

Stanislaus			
Jim Gain				
3300 Cardinal Flower Ave.
Modesto, CA 95355
jimgain at pacbell.net

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

Tuolumne
Steven Umland
15818 Parkridge Ave.
Sonora, CA 95370
sumland at 2xtreme.net


We currently have no regional editors for Marin and
Tulare Counties.  Records from these counties should
be sent directly to the Regional Editors.




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 electronically, either on a
diskette or 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,


Luke Cole, Mike Rogers, Scott Terrill, and Steve
Glover

(Middle Pacific Coast Regional Editors)