Message from the President

I cannot believe it is the end of the year already. What a great year we have had. I will not bore you with everything we have accomplished, but do have several items I want to go over.

Have you looked at the Finchshop section of the web site yet?  It looks fabulous. Pictures of the items and an order form you can print to place your order. At this writing we are implementing a credit card purchase program for Finchshop. Look for many new items to be added over the next few months.

Are you a vendor who wants to offer your products through Finchshop? Drop Shipment work for you?  Email or give Annette Howard, the Finchshop director a call and see if our arrangement will work for you.

When I wrote this, one of our members was in negotiations for adding a show cage and hand drawn notepaper to Finchshop. I would really like to see a good jewelry and garment distributor agree to drop ship orders through Finchshop. I know we have many members with products for sale that will fit very nicely into what Finchshop is offering both on the Internet and through the Bulletin.

We have three positions requiring a vote by the membership. Please see the election ballot printed in the November/December Bulletin and vote for the person nominated to fill the position or provide a write-in vote.

In the 3rd Quarter Board meeting a motion was passed to establish an E-mail list limited to NFSS members. I have been on it several times just before writing this and have already been discussing how to sex Chinese White Headed Bulbuls. If you want quick messages you can receive them individually or if you are like me and want to get them all at once, receive a digest once a day. This works well for me since I normally check my e-mail in the evenings. Go to the NFSS web site to sign up or see the directions in this issue. A special thanks goes to John Wilson for stepping forward and volunteering to run this program for NFSS. 

Look for another raffle to be conducted by Keri McCoy, the 1st Vice President in 2001. She already has three pair of birds and is busy putting together other donations for the fundraiser. 

We are also looking into a membership drive. More details to follow. 2001 is shaping up to be a very exciting year and I hope you find it as productive as I expect it to be for the National Finch and Softbill Society.

Dale Laird
President NFSS