If you are unable to view this e-mail, go here. Unless it’s in the early morning on December 25th, and there are eight tiny reindeer on your roof, if there are mysterious noises coming from your fireplace, you may have an uninvited avian guest. It was surprising to us that one of the most visited articles on our website is that dealing with birds in the chimney. Click here to find out more. Liberty Wildlife's Research and Conservation department has worked diligently to ensure that Arizona's native wildlife is safe when encountering and having to share space with man-made structures. Typically, utility structures are involved in this quest – power poles and lines running across the open desert can be dangerous to our flighted friends. To read more, go here. Well, just when you think it is over, another little one wings its way into our Orphan Care room, and as always, it didn't come in on its own! Click here to find out more Liberty Wildlife: Invested in the Arizona Community Liberty Wildlife touches many in the community, both human and animal. Our impact on the wildlife community is obvious. One of the many ways we tie this activity to the community in which we live is what you're reading right now. We are trying to get the message out in every medium we can, while trying to minimize our eco-footprint. It's apparent that you have visited the Liberty Wildlife website or you wouldnt be here. One of the new features we are adding to this (and it may be up and running as you read) is a media kit for the use of the local papers and e-media outlets. Accurate information about what we do is vital for us to continue to have a positive impact on our community, so we offer our services to provide the best possible data to whoever requests it, via data and graphic presentations, free of charge. Along with the updates to the normal website, we now offer a weekly blog, consisting of two parts: Hoots, Howls, and Hollers, produced by our Executive Director, Megan Mosby, is a short, stop the presses update of extremely current information that can’t wait for the website or even the Nature News to get out. The bulk of the blog will usually be This Week at Liberty, which began over two years ago as a means of letting the volunteers at Liberty see what was happening each week when they might have not been there. From a simple e-mail to three volunteers and staff, it has grown legs that virtually circle the world, being read in Canada, India, Greece, and even China. It consists of a series of photos taken at the facility in the preceding week, along with what I hope will be interesting information about what we do for all of the inhabitants of Arizona, whether footed, feathered, or finned. It comes out each week, and you can either subscribe via the RSS link at the bottom of the blog, or you can simply go to the website each Tuesday (I try to get it out on Monday night!) and click on the blog tab near the website footer. Please try it and drop a comment to let us know what you think. In a more tangible way, we are also working with some of the local merchants in the area to give them a chance to help us, and allow the public to give to the cause in a totally painless and hopefully pleasant way. If you shop at Bashas’ grocery stores, you can have the cashier link your customer courtesy card to Liberty Wildlife ID#267839, and every time you use your card, a percentage of your bill will be donated to Liberty by Bashas’. It costs you nothing, but believe me, the benefits add up! Another community merchant that is stepping up to work with us is California Pizza Kitchen. On Wednesday, Oct. 15, if you visit the CPK at 10100 N. Scottsdale Rd (just south of Shea Blvd.) between 11 AM and 9 PM and hand them a copy of the donation form, they will donate 20% of your tab to Liberty Wildlife. This will cover the lunch and dinner hours for the better part of the day, so our chances to accumulate some needed funds are good! If you think you might want to take part in this event, e-mail Missy at melissah@libertywildlife.org and she will e-mail you the form. Just print it out and present it when you order your food. If you don’t have it, we are planning to be close by the restaurant to hand out fliers to anybody who doesn’t have one. As the community gives to us, we return the gifts many times over in serving the educational needs of the public, and the medical needs of the wildlife in whose habitat we have chosen to live. But it’s a trade we love to perform…over and over again! Birdie Fore Birds Tournament 2008 If you are a golfer and you have not yet signed up for the Birdie Fore Birds Tournament 2008, please fill out this form and send it to Missi ASAP! Send in your wildlife drawing and enter to win! Every month the best design will advance in the Liberty KIDS SHIRT OF THE YEAR AWARD. The winning T-shirt design will be screened onto cool shirts that will be sold in our catalog, online and at community events. Each month’s winner will be featured in Nature News—Liberty Wildlife’s monthly e-newsletter. Do it! Make your best drawing of a bird of prey and e-mail it or snail mail it to: Liberty Wildlife P.O. Box 14345 Scottsdale, AZ 85267 Volunteer@libertywildife.org Contact Us | Terms of Use  ©2003 - 2008 Liberty Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation To make sure you continue receiving our newsletters (and that they don't go to your bulk or junk folders), please add naturenews@libertywildlife.org to your e-mail address book. Please remove me from this e-mail list.