<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Hi Everyone,</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">My name is Jeff Fleischer and I am project developer / coordinator for the Winter Raptor Survey Project sponsored by the East Cascades Audubon Society based in Bend, OR. Last winter we wound up surveying 551 routes covering more than 32,000 miles of transects throughout all of OR, ID, WA, the northern portions of CA and UT, and western MT. A total of 450+ volunteers survey these routes once a month during December thru February with additional optional survey months available for November and March.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">We are about to enter our 20th survey season and I have several routes in your state that need a volunteer to do surveys and I would be grateful if some of you would like to take on a route or two this winter :) I have done these route advertisements on Tweeters in the recent past and have been successful in securing help, hopefully some of you will keep that success going:)</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Here is the list of routes with their corresponding lengths:</span><div><font face="ArialMT"><br></font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Brush Prairie - Battle Ground 55 miles</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Washougal - Fern Prairie 42</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Raymond - Holcomb 53</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Aberdeen 37 </font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Oakville 56</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Centralia East 58</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Centralia West 62</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Winlock 59</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Boistfort - Pe Ell 64</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Kingston - Marrowstone 104</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">White Swan East 73</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Wapato 67</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Toppenish West 76</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Deer Park 75</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Wilbur 96</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Almira North 60</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Almira South 85</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Odessa SW 91</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Prosser South 91</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Prosser West 91</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Touchet North 62</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Walla Walla East 53</font></div><div><font face="ArialMT">Pullman SW 73 <br></font><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">There are only a few requirements to participate:</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">1. I ask that volunteers commit to doing one survey per month for the three primary months of December thru February, surveys can also be done in November and March but these are optional months. More than one survey can also be done for any given month as an additional option</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">2. Volunteers should be comfortable with IDing the common species of raptors in your chosen area and be willing to increase your knowledge of these regal birds</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">3. You should have at least a pair of binoculars to help you spot and ID birds, a spotting scope would be nice to have but not a requirement</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">4. Survey dates are determined by each volunteer based on their monthly life schedules and hopefully to skirt inclement weather when birds can be sheltered and out of view</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">If this sounds like something you would like to do, please email me as soon as you can with your choice of route(s), to be fair I will fill the routes on a first come first served basis. I will then provide you with the necessary material to get you properly prepared for what you will be doing:)</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">I would really like to make this 20th season something special and filling these routes will be a big part of that effort, looking forward to hearing from you soon, thank you :)</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Jeff Fleischer</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Project Developer / Coordinator</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Winter Raptor Survey Project</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">East Cascades Audubon Society - Bend, OR</span></div></div></body></html>