On Saturday, December 20, our chapter participated in the National Audubon Society’s 126th annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC), where we counted birds in our 15-mile diameter circle. Tony Moline was our organizer, and his final report showed that 25 people were split into 9 groups. We also had a couple people doing feeder watching from home.

On count day, birds are counted individually. As a follow-up, we report any species seen during “count week,” which includes the 3 days before and 3 days after count day. On the count week days, we track only the additional species seen, with no individual counting.

We had a nice turnout for our compilation and potluck at EB Lyons. We enjoyed a chili supper and then went through all the species, with groups sharing their counts, in order to add up the number for each species.

In total, we saw 71 species on count day and counted 5758 birds, and we added 7 more species for count week.

See full results on our Birds page.