<div dir="ltr">Elaine and Doug, your efforts keeping this forum running are greatly appreciated!!! Steve<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM Elaine Chuang via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:18.4px;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24.5333px;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Happy Summer Solstice, dear Tweets, on a lovely PNW day!  </span></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:18.4px;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24.5333px;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:18.4px;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);direction:ltr"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24.5333px;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Long-time subscribers will fondly remember</span> Dan Victor and Hal Opperman as the original masterminds of the Tweeters listserv (launched in approximately 1992).  A quarter of a century later, under Hal’s tutelage, I was brought in as a new administrator (in mid-2019).  And in October 2024 with deepest thanks to him, we let Hal step down ("out of the wheelhouse" as he likes to say).  But not before we recruited our newest member of Tweeters management, Doug Santoni, who it is my pleasure to introduce officially.  Doug has already become an integral part of managing<span> our forum: h</span><span>e has brought his skills and insights to the full range of "opportunities" and many satisfactions of administering Tweeters as we exchange information and commentary on birds and birding. </span></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:18.4px;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);direction:ltr"><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font><br></font><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><span>You may already know Doug from his </span>volunteer work as Board member and past Chair of Audubon Washington, or from his forays birding around Seattle, especially on Foster Island and in the Arboretum.  <span>Doug, we thank you for fresh energy and your ample contributions.</span></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:18.4px;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0in;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,2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