Great Backyard Bird Count-2011
Let’s get the word out!
Are you listening?
Hey, you!
This is a big deal!
Wanna see my Linda Blair impersonation?
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This weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Count 2011 in the USA. Click here to get the details.
The Fairegarden is ready.
Carolina Chickadee
American Goldfinches
Downy Woodpecker
Mourning Dove
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Brown Headed Nuthatch
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There are four days to do the count, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, February 18, 19, 20, 21. It only takes an hour, or as little as fifteen minutes. You can do it anywhere, not just your backyard, parks, public areas, neighborhood spaces, anywhere that birds can be found. Go to the link above to learn how to count and report your findings. It is important. For our feathered friends. Pretty please with birdseed on top.
We will post the bird numbers from our count after it has been tabulated here.
Count #1
Observation Date : FEB 18, 2011
Start Time: 1:00 PM
Total Birding Time: 1 hour
Party Size: 1
Skill: good
Weather: good
Snow Depth: No snow was present
Habitat(s):
deciduous woods
coniferous woods
urban
freshwater
Number of Species: 20
All Reported: yes
Checklist:
Mourning Dove – 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 1
Downy Woodpecker – 2
Blue Jay – 1
American Crow – 1
Carolina Chickadee – 2
Tufted Titmouse – 2
White-breasted Nuthatch – 1
Brown-headed Nuthatch – 2
Carolina Wren – 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 1
Eastern Bluebird – 1
American Robin – 19
Northern Mockingbird – 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 1
Song Sparrow – 1
White-throated Sparrow – 4
Northern Cardinal – 3
Common Grackle – 1
Purple Finch – 1
Frances
nces,
Good luck with the count! Some years I help with the Christmas Bird Counts, getting out before 7 am is making them harder to do for me these days. And Meg is always over worked with teaching school.
Randy Emmitt said this on February 18, 2011 at 7:23 am |
Good job getting the word out! We do it each year; and like doing it from the same place each year (our own back garden) so we can compare from year to year. I’m happy to report, each year we have seen a marked increase of bird numbers and diversity as our habitat has matured.
Helen Yoest @ Gardening With Confidence said this on February 18, 2011 at 7:24 am |
Lovely post, Frances. Good luck with the count! I was writing a tribute piece the other day for a naturalist and biology professor and author who recently passed, and was recounting an anecdote he told about counting birds. Someone asked him how he kept them all straight when doing a count, and he said he just counted the number of legs and divided by two.
jodi (bloomingwriter) said this on February 18, 2011 at 8:20 am |
Frances, I am afraid with the dog and all of the squirrels the birds don’t stay long enough for me to count them. They try to get to the feeder but get chased away. When the trees leaf out they come more often and hide amongst the branches.
Eileen
Eileen said this on February 18, 2011 at 8:45 am |
You know I am ready! Looking forward to it.
Janet said this on February 18, 2011 at 9:43 am |
will attempt this but with all the snow still on the ground here, we see little to no birds close up
Donna said this on February 18, 2011 at 9:57 am |
Gosh Frances, you have lots of birdies in your garden. FUN.
Lisa at Greenbow said this on February 18, 2011 at 11:03 am |
Dear Frances, I love every one of those birds! I think Doves are so pretty and they make the oddest squeaking noise when they are startled and fly away! Thank you for the Bird Count reminder~I will get my binoculars out to watch the way-wayback feeder. Btw, ss the feeder that Mr Chickadee is visiting new? I like it! xxoogail
gail said this on February 18, 2011 at 12:08 pm |
The female cardinal is really more subtle and more interesting than that flash of red male isn’t she. Love all your birds.
Layanee said this on February 18, 2011 at 1:00 pm |
This will be my first year to participate. I’ve always missed it before.
Phyllis said this on February 18, 2011 at 2:37 pm |
We’re counting today too. So far we’ve heard lots of birds, but not a whole lot have visited other than Robins. My little one sat on the heat vent watching out for them this morning. You sure do get a wide variety there. Looking forward to see who all visits.
Catherine said this on February 18, 2011 at 5:32 pm |
I will be doing this, here in Miami, over the weekend. And I think there will be quite a few migrating birds to count, too.
–Penny
Penny said this on February 18, 2011 at 7:58 pm |
Great post Frances. Sure wish I had more of our feathered friends here. City is bad place for them.
Lola said this on February 18, 2011 at 10:35 pm |
I live in a city and do get plenty of birds at the feeders, but have no clue how to count them. They come by the hundreds. It is only when the hawks come do the numbers decrease to that which can be counted. Morning Doves alone are about thirty at a time.
Garden Walk Garden Talk said this on February 19, 2011 at 12:01 am |
Hi Frances,
So glad you blogged this. I almost did the Audubon Societies Christmas Bird Count, then my girls got colds and I was too busy wiping little noses to even look out the window! So I am trying to do this one this weekend, thanks for sharing. However I do have 25-30mph winds with 60mph wind gusts yesterday and today to contend with, so our birdies will more than likely be hiding!!
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