[birding] Vaux's Swift Watch: new web page and doodle calendar

[Nicole Nielsen-Pincus]

It's migration time again and the East Cascade Bird Conservancy and Vaux's Happening are looking for volunteers to count Vaux's swifts at roosts throughout Oregon.
As the swift project grows and in effort to get organized this fall, we've incorporated a few new tools to plan for swift counting across the state.  Thanks to Joel Geier, a new web page is up and running with a working list of active, historic, and suspected roosts in Oregon.  This list will be udpated periodically and results will be posted after the fall migration.  You can access this through the Oregon Field Ornithologists webpage (and in the future at the East Cascade Bird Conservancy's webpage) with this link:
http://www.oregonbirds.org/vauxs_swift_survey.html
 
You'll also find there a document called Helpful Hints for Swift Counting and a data sheet.  
 
Additionally, you'll find a link to a Doodle calendar there- an online calendar that allows volunteers to sign up for a slot to count swifts at roosts that still need counters.  Feel free to sign up for as few or as many different time slots as you can commit to.  We don't need more than 2 counters per roost at a time and we really would like to get Sept 12th covered.  The doodle calendar can also be reached directly by clicking this link:
http://www.doodle.com/itqh3b6ct2gm59pn
 
Feel free to pass this email and these webpages on to any interested parties.  Thanks again for your help.
 
Nicole Nielsen-Pincus
East Cascade Bird Conservancy
Vaux's Happening Oregon State Coordinator


      
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