Short Walks is a list of over 100 short walks and safe places to park, designed so that mobility-limited birders can see more numbers and species. It's a spreadsheet in Google Documents:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlGoRwpC5niKdFhHOVkzdm5ubFVVN2xqNm5jWV9TVGc&hl=en&authkey=CMC-zboM#gid=0 The spreadsheet was rearranged into a more intuitive geographical "tic-tac-toe board" -- nine regions from NW to SE, with "Metro" substituting for east central. (But Metro comes first on the spreadsheet.) A "key" to finding the regional listings was added to the upper-right-hand corner (and a map is in the works). So, if you know where you'll be going, it's easier now to find Short Walks nearby. Other significant changes: Audubon MN has donated some books for us to draw from, and Roger Schroeder has encouraged us to tap into his SW MN website <http://singingwings.rohair.com/>. One generous contributor developed his land on a lake for a disabled relative; now he offers other mobility-limited birders loan of his golf cart through Short Walks. Twelve of us now edit the spreadsheet. But we live only in the Twin Cities, Mankato and Faribault. We do not exactly blanket the state. If you live elsewhere and would like to contribute your regional knowledge, please reply back-channel. We're all out in the field more now, but in between birding expeditions, this list is building. Thanks for everyone's contributions! Frank Berdan, for the editorial team: Mat Dufort, Jen Vieth, Diana Doyle, Linda Whyte, Chad Heins, Rob Daves, Tony Smith, Ivars Krafts, Dave Bartkey, Ron Plinske, Renner.Anderson, Larry Sirvio ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
