The Great Backyard Bird Count..this weekend..who's doing it?

[shep]

Here is the link.http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc

This is one of my favorite things to do with my kids..
What birds have you seen so far ?..

 

[Vivianne]

We are. Thanks for the link.

I also intend to go to the Eagle Festival this weekend in Essex, CT. They're going to have live bird presentations and other activities in heated tents. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Virgo10]

I am! I posted about this a few days ago but got no responses. Glad to see there's someone else who finds this entertaining.

I already sent them a photo. This was a flock of Ibises that were circling over my house this morning. It's a very UNFlorida type sky behind them. Down right cold for the deep south today.

I've also seen the usual Cardinals, blue jays, mockingbirds and yellow-rumped warblers today. I need to get down to the lake and see if I can spot some Wood Storks. I've been seeing quite a few of these and they're an endangered species.

 

[shep]

I forgot to post what I seen so far today...
9 Northern Cardinals
1 Mourning Dove
1 Dark-eyed Junco
5 American Goldfinch
2 Downy Woodpeckers
5 House Finch or Purple Finch? get them mixed up..
1 Tufted Titmouse
2 Carolina Chickadees
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 white-breasted nuthatch
10 Song Sparrows

Vivianne--Eagle Festival sounds neat

Nice pic Virgo! Sorry noone responded to your thread..I looked on the 1st page before I started this one..

Good Luck to everyone who participates on winning a prize..

 

[Jockaroo]

Just wanted to bump this back to the first page. I was going to start a thread, but found yours. I have done a count today and need to find out what that little brown bird I can't I.D. is. I'm thinking song sparrow, but need to verify through the online guide. This is an interesting project, I discovered I have dark-eyed Juncos. Very cute bird. Also, I am over-run with mourning doves--I've been told it is a country pigeon. I counted 7 of them at once.

Oh, the count runs Feb 16-19 and only takes 15 minutes.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Wow, thanks for the info! DH and I do the Christmas Bird Count every year, but that's an all-day event. We're avid bird-watchers always looking at birds, so this will be great. I'm going to read more on that website and definitely sign up for it. If I have any questions after I finish reading, I'll come back here. And we live right on a resaca (small creek) which is always filled with birds. Right now, there are Black-bellied whistling ducks, cormorants, golden-fronted woodpeckers, black-crested titmice, and our resident Ruby Crowned Kinglet out there.

 

[shep]

15 minutes.. I watched for almost 2 hours today..

Tomorrow my girls will join me..

 

[Virgo10]

Anyone keeping track of how many species they've seen. I'm up to 18. The most of any one bird was the tree swallows. I've seen at least 200.

Nothing new for me this year. The biggest excitement was just a few minutes ago when we had a Robin on the neighbor's front lawn. We don't see many of them in this area. The most unusual bird I saw, although we do see our share, was a Little Blue Heron.

Florida is leading the list for reporting the most birds... 1,616,642. That's more than triple what second place Texas has reported.

To see what your state has done, go here:
http://gbbc.birdsource.org/gbbcApps/top10