This message is posted with the consent of the ONTBIRDS manager: Journey North is an award-winning internet based science program, that monitors and measures the arrival of spring across North America through "first sightings" of certain target species. In the past few years, ONTBIRD subscribers have generously supported this program by sharing data, later used in classroom studies by over 300,000 students in Canada and the United States. We again request your support. PLEASE DO POST YOUR DATA TO ONTBIRDS. You may register at the Journey North Website at: www.learner.org/jnorth, and post your data there. You may also forward your data to: donald.davis@utoronto.ca. Sightings should include: date, name and e-mail address of observer, nearest village and town, name of specie observed and any relevant particulars. Target species for 2002 are: earthworm frog (first heard) hummingbird loon milkweed (first leaves) monarch butterfly monarch egg laying, eggs, larva oriole, oriole nest-building red-winged blackbird barn swallow other signs of spring A complete chart listing these events and others is posted at the Journey North web site but cannot be accessed until you register with the program. Thank you again for your support. If you could share this information with other field naturalists or field naturalist clubs, this would be appreciated. Don Davis Toronto, ON donald.davis@utoronto.ca