THE CACTUS WREN

CONTENTS:

Events & Programs • From the Editor • Notes & Announcements • 50th Gala at Shalimar • Large Donation Received • NAS Proxies • Photo Quiz • Conservation - Forest Notes • Conservation - If Fish Could Fly (or A Fish Story) • Field Trip Review - Coon & Cherry Creeks • AZ Special Species - Phainopepla • Photo Quiz Answers • Field Trips • Field Observations • Coachwhip Chaos • Field Trip Review - Cuba-Going South • IBA Announcement

This pair of Cordilleran Flycatchers was photographed near Sprung Spring above Madera Canyon in July, 2003 by Jim Burns with Canon EOS 1V body, Canon 400mm f/2.8 lens, 1.4x tele extender, 12mm extension tube, and Canon flash on Fujichrome Velvia film

	LARGE DONATION RECEIVED
	By Herb Fibel
	Maricopa Audubon is profoundly grateful to the anonymous person or persons who just donated $5,000 to us to use for the ongoing publication of the Cactus Wren-dition. Thank you, thank you, thank you, whoever you are. On the same subject, please bear with your editor and with your board while we endeavor to publish and distribute to you the same high quality newsletter, or one of even higher quality, if possible, while seeking ways to reduce the cost per person of the Wren-dition. For your information we now have about 230 "Friends of Maricopa Audubon". This issue will be going out to each of you, plus to our "comps" and on a one-time-only basis to all brand new members of NAS assigned to our chapter.
	NAS PROXIES
	By Herb Fibel
	If you are still a member of National Audubon, before the next issue of the Wren-dition comes to you in the mail, you will be receiving in the mail, or inside your Audubon magazine, a voting proxy from National Audubon, granting authority to NAS President Flicker and/or others on the National Audubon board to vote in your behalf at the annual meeting of members next December. Last year President Flicker used these approximately 37,000 proxies, received from Audubon members like you, to defeat a series or Motions and Resolutions	presented by a group of chapter people, whose goal was to democratize the NAS board election process, and grant more recognition to the contribution of chapters to the Audubon organization. I personally request that when you receive your proxy form from NAS that you simply trash it. Hopefully, in the next Wren-dition we will present an alternative proxy to you as we did last year, but we don't have the requisite information to present a proxy for your consideration by the deadline for this edition of the Wren-dition.

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FALL - 2003 PHOTO QUIZ
By Jim Burns

THIS ISSUE’S CLUE—Shorebirds are on their way. The big ones are usually easier than the “peeps.” These three photographs were all taken in Arizona.
A) Good Photo, Easy Bird
B) Good Photo, Difficult Bird
C) Bad Photo, Easy Bird
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