I'm not the hard sell type, but if you are looking to participate in a bird count consider the Fairmont CBC on Dec 15. Please contact me if interested.
We generally have more ground (and perhaps water) to cover than we have time and people to cover it. Although much of the area is crop land; there are numerous (perhaps 16) lakes within our count circle, we have some woodland, marsh, grain elevators, and even a few cemeteries. Just to mention a few oddities about our count. We had a peregrine before we had a kestral. We had a Bohemian Waxwing before Cedar Waxwing and had Harris's Sparrows our first three years (1990-1992). For those who enjoy finding birds not previously discovered on a count, you have some opportunities here. I am sure we miss rarer waterbirds hiding among the flocks of waterfowl on occasion. Any participant finding a scoter, goshawk, kingfisher, meadowlark, snowy owl, brown thrasher, winter wren, or towhee (any towhee) would be finding a species not previously found on our count. Hope to see you on the 15th, Brad Bolduan
