Kyle congrats on your new venture....and to Tom on his show in NYC and
to Laurente & Leslie stirring up the recording world in distant
places. Happy New Year to All! Hope we hear from others in our far
flung class. We just finished our 3rd Christmas Bird Count in Sonoma
posting 175 species up from our fist year of 155 in the 24 hour
period. Started a Nature Lecture Series this past year in Sonoma.
Cornell's Bryan Sullivan was one of the six lectures. Been working
with International Bird Rescue for over a year now coordinating
releases. Very rewarding with the ibis and american bittern releases.
We currently have a Frigatebird in critical condition that just
arrived with our storms. Here is the link -
http://www.ibrrc.org/pr_01_07_2008.html. We also had a team leave for
Argentina for the oil spill this week...hardly finishing up the SF Bay
oiled birds. We were only able to save 450 bird. My cruiser had 25
grebes at a time heading for release at Pt. Reyes on Hearts Desire
Beach. Made for a very different Christmas season. Hopefully people
are coming out of the malls and are starting to realize we all live
down wind and down stream and our actions collectively make a
difference for this planet. "Later" is an extinct word. Best to you all!

Cheer,
the other tom