Bird Watching: Coming Soon "The Great Backyard Bird Count"!!!, 1 by pelletory

pelletory wrote:
Only 16 days till the first of 4 day begins. So easy to do even if you don't have a lot of time you can count birds for just 15 minutes on one or more days! This is also a great project to have your children or grandchildren involved in. Another great thing is it is FREE; all you have to do is report the highest number of each species that you see. After all the lists have been counted you can go to the site to see the totals for your area, state and other parts of the country

http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/

From the site:Scientists use the counts, along with observations from other citizen-science projects, such as the Christmas Bird Count, Project FeederWatch, and eBird, to give us an immense picture of our winter birds. Each year that these data are collected makes them more meaningful and allows scientists to investigate far-reaching questions.

So this is a big help to our feathered friends, here is how to participate: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/howto.html

Here is a page for kids: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/kids

Since we have so many great photographers here at Daves you might also like to enter their Photo Contest, here are some of the winners for past years: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/gallery Don't you just love that Orange-crowned Warbler?

So I hope everyone gets a chance to participate. Spread the word about the GBBC! We'll be sure to remind you again closer to the time before it starts. Have a great day!!