GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT BEGINS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Join bird watchers across the continent in counting birds from wherever you are, beginning this Friday, February 15, through Monday,February 18, 2008. You can spend as little as 15 minutes or as long as you like on one or more of the count days. Enter your tallies at http://www.birdcount.org so the birds you see become part of a historic record for this winter. Everyone who submits a checklist is automatically entered in a drawing for birdy prizes. Check out the photo contest too! We're also inviting people to shoot videos of birds or bird watchers and then upload them to YouTube tagged "Great Backyard Bird Count." Then everyone can see them and we'll post some of the best ones on the GBBC web site. Join us and "Count for Fun, Count for the Future!" Best wishes, Pat Leonard Cornell Lab of Ornithology ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]