Bill Hogelin and Anne Galli for their amazing repairs and painting at the former Sandy Hook Bird Observatory (SHBO); to our excellent weekend volunteers: Bob Lisiesky for repairs and special projects; Christine Allen, Helena Bauernschmitt, Mike Blasenheim, Colette Buchanan, Teri Catalano, Sandra Escala, Donna Juettner, Joann and Tony Lambiase, Donna Schulman, Jolanta Simonelli, John McCarthy and Linda Stehlik, Janet Stadelmeier, Susanna Treesh, and Elsie Zecchino; Irwin Lentchner for his great efforts with Inventory and POS as well as volunteer coordination; Sharon Lentchner and Linda Mack for their bookstore efforts; Bonnie Strand for maintaining the website, field trip directions and many other special projects; our wonderful weekday volunteers: Trina Anderson, Kathy Covington, Carol Coyne, Georgia Dempster, Mitch Dormont, Anne Galli, Bill Hogelin, Kevin Keating, Irwin and Sharon Lentchner, Bob Lisiesky, Judy Oakley, Dona Radey, David Royce, Andria Schanzer, Bonnie Strand, and Tom Tarlach; to our superb associate naturalists: Patrick Belardo, Tom Boyle, Michael Britt, Terry Carruthers, Brian Clough, Rob Fanning, David Harrison, Carole Hughes, Karen Johnson, Andrew Spears and Ken Witkowski; to Ron Blandon and David Rosenblatt for their excellent efforts filling in as volunteers; Anne Galli and Dona Radey for publicity and special projects; to Tom Boyle, Mike Mandracchia, Corinne Errico, David Blinder, Kevin Keating, Howard Eskin, Trina Anderson, Richard Wolfort, and Norann Hein for photographic image donations; to Kevin Keating for special projects and problem solving; Linda Mack for all her efforts on behalf of SHBO; Elsie Zecchino for research help with Pete’s HEP Grant; to Linda Han for her assistance with writing the HEP Grant; to Lyda Spear and Kathleen Mistretta for home office assistance; to Jim O’Malley for IT assistance; to Norann Hein for computer tech support and bookstore help; to Denis Cleary and Brian Moscatello for bookstore support; to Melissa Craddock for help with inventory; to Laurie Larson for all her efforts in the name of Jersey birding; Tom Brown for his excellent banding project at the Hook and to Trina Anderson for helping with the project; to our associate naturalists and Kevin Bolton, Kevin Browne, Hugh Carola, Ray Duffy, Billy Kaselow, Ivan Kossak, Mike Newhouse and Chris Takacs for their efforts leading on the Meadowlands Festival; to Lisa Ryan for her tireless efforts working on the festival; to Trina Anderson, Sharon Lentchner and Bonnie Strand for helping with inventory: donation of material for SHBO repairs by Anne Galli and Joe Carragher; the Navesink Garden Club for their great efforts with the garden.

(January 2012)