Today I decided to help out with the Christmas Bird Count and saw a total of....(drumroll)....zero birds. ...except for about a gazillion ravens which we couldn't count.
I partnered up with a biologist from Fish and Wildlife who just moved here from Hawaii in October. Our area was City Sub so we mostly drove around town looking into willow forests and at people's bird feeders. We even got out and walked through some willows (example pictured on left) and split up and stood silently and everything. Nuthin'. Can't complain too much though when the company is good!
This evening I went to a post-bird count potluck where I talked to a few people about the big year I'm planning on doing next year. They seemed pretty excited about it, and most people there had "life lists" of birds they had seen in their lives. They gave me some good tips on where and when to see birds, so we'll see what happens!
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