Greetings!
WFO’s 14th Annual Meeting was held jointly with the Western Bird Banding Association in Reno, Nevada, during the crisp days of mid-October, as Evening Grosbeaks arrived in the foothills of the eastern Sierra. Activities ranged from excellent, informative paper presentations to demonstrations of banding, raptor trapping, radio telemetry, and tree-climbing techniques. An enthusiastic, overflow audience joined WFO’s panel of experts in debating identification problems. Ron LeValley’s excellent banquet program on “The Sea of Cortez” culminated the proceedings. Field trips to Pyramid Lake, Mt. Rose, Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, and Honey Lake focused on the birds of the eastern Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin desert.