Great Backyard Bird Count 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 09:31PM 
The 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count is just a few weeks away. Mark your calendar for one or more days during the long bird-counting weekend starting Friday, February 12, and going through Monday, February 15. Whether you participate on one or on several days, by submitting your list of the birds you see to the GBBC, you will help scientists learn more about how birds are faring in your neighborhood.
Click the image below to visit the GBBC Web site:
The Great Backyard Bird Count is a joint venture sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society, and Bird Studies Canada. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a nonprofit membership institution interpreting and conserving the earth’s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. The National Audubon Society is dedicated to protecting birds and other wildlife and the habitat that supports them. The newest sponsor, Bird Studies Canada, a non-governmental charitable organization, is Canada’s national body for bird conservation and science.
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The GBBC is great fun, and I've done it the last 2 years & a couple of years previously. I'll be in Ft. Collins Feb 10-17 this year & won't be in my own back yard, but perhaps can report on Bill's yard. In the past, I haven't seen any birds in their yard in winter except crows and red-shafted flickers! We'll see.
I signed up for the Feeder Watch thru Cornell Lab this year -- started today. So far, logged cardinal, juncos, chickadees, titmice & 4 downy woodpeckers.
I look forward to hearing what you see in Feb.
I'm taking the Va Master Naturalist training course now with the Riverine Chapter headquartered in Ashland. I enjoyed the ecology refresher last week. Tomorrow is the geology section, & I'm teaching the botany section next Thursday. 2 1/2 hrs is not enough to cover everything ... exercise in prioritization, condensation & generous references. Feels good to be back in classroom - on both sides of the desk!