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  1. RT @birdorable: Opened an Etsy shop http://birdorable.etsy.com/. Pocket mirrors, magnets, buttons. Birdorable & birder designs.
  2. Great Horned Owl in Columbus Park 3 days running, but not today. Were Sandhill Cranes overhead & Winter Wren by lagoon: http://bit.ly/Imo29
  3. Operation Migration's Necedah, WI, hanger has been vandalized. Donations are needed. Article here: http://tinyurl.com/ykjqxm4
  4. RT @ninaksimon: New blog post: how the Zealandia nature sanctuary makes preservation sexy & compelling - http://ow.ly/FuiH
  5. RT @KyleCrider: Parents would rather talk to kids about drugs than math and science: ...“Educate to Innovate” http://tinyurl.com/y8erumm
  6. RT @indianadunessp: Our 2009 fall banding has finished. We banded 19 saw-whet owls, and heard many more. <- We hope to visit next year!
  7. RT @HumanOrigins: Happy birthday to Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", published 150 years ago today!
  8. Look what the crows found in Columbus Park: A Great Horned Owl! « Neighborhood Nature http://bit.ly/6XewGI
  9. RT @RichLouv: New special publications on children & nature from C&N Network http://ping.fm/oqOmk <-- worth checking out!
  10. A flock of 18 American Crows flew through the neighborhood today, making lots of noise. No sign of anything being mobbed by them, though.
  11. @WildBirdsUnlmtd What days do YOU do PFW? Mon & Tues. Too often out birding with my sons on weekends -- I work from home.
  12. Northern Cardinal (RT @WildBirdsUnlmtd: What was your #FirstBird of the day? #birds #birdwatching Let's have some fun: answer and RT
  13. Seasons of the Tulip Tree: Almost Full Circle « from Neighborhood Nature blog: http://bit.ly/8VpXuo
  14. Another resource: "Nine to nineteen," a guide for youth program planners and practitioners: http://bit.ly/935nC6 (large pdf)
  15. Resources about youth programming from IMLS: A research study, characteristics of successful programs: http://bit.ly/4FCpnm (large pdf)
  16. RT @birdpost: Love to read about young birders (Ohio Young Birders Club provides model): http://bit.ly/08J2pAr
  17. I almost appended "Nor should we" to my last tweet. Would that be too threatening to some adults? (But I'm a @FreeRangeKids fan...)
  18. Adults can plan programs that get young people with shared interests together. But, given social media, we can't control what happens next.
  19. It's really cool that the VENT/ABA Camp Chiricahua kids formed the nucleus of a national Facebook/cell phone network of young birders.
  20. Talk about informal! The young birders organized it all themselves, I just drove. But the roots go back to VENT/ABA's Camp Chiricahua in AZ.