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"It doesn't take much to make a difference," he said, pointing out the Cordilleran Flycatcher and the Western Tanager as examples of birds that are seen here and also in Guatemala and Panama. When he talks about "leveraging other stuff" to raise funds, he says, "One interesting thing we have going on here is what we are trying to do on a hemispheric scale." Brad describes himself as "more of an auditory birder than most people. In the field, he regularly counts 80 to 90 birds a day by ear on migratory birds routes. Each year, he offers Birding by Ear seminars through Evergreen Nature Center. As the EA Bird Monitoring chair, Brad manages nest boxes at Elk Meadow Park and coordinates the Bear Creek Watershed Breeding Bird Atlas. He says his most memorable local sighting was a Blackpoll Warbler near Keys on the Green three years ago. "I like going to the plains a lot-the lower foothills are not bad either," he said of the local birding scene, and he keeps an eye out for Band-tailed Pigeons higher up. He and his wife, Heather Johnson, who also works for the USFWS and is on the EA board, are frequent volunteers at Evergreen Nature Center. Brad laughs when he points out that he has no one working for him, while Heather supervises more than 50 people in her USFWS job, which is what brought the couple to the Denver area. That story is to be continued in a future Meet the Board article. - written by Debbie Marshall