The Christmas Bird Count Season begins this Friday, December 14
and that means that count week begins Tuesday for those earliest
counts. AND THIS YEAR THERE ARE NO COUNT FEES (not from National
anyway).

The seven day forecast is out and it looks like the first week
of the count season will be we and on the cool side, with even
a bit of snow east of the Cascades.

As always Don Albright has done a fine job of collecting dates and
Contact information for Oregon Counts at:
http://www.oregonbirds.org/ofocbc.html

And Washington Counts have been assembled by Chazz Hesselein at:
http://www.wos.org/cbc.html

Both sites are linked at:
http://home.pacifier.com/~mpatters/cbc/cbc_WAOR_reg.html

Where you can also find links to National Audubon's CBC and website
and links to info on what birds need documentation and tips on how
to efficiently count all the birds in you assigned area.

Those of you who have the time in your calendar are encouraged to do
more than one count. There are plenty of "rural" counts that could
use the extra hands. After all, there's no longer that count fee
excuse.

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
Sharing the Owl
http://www.surfbirds.com/community-blogs/northcoastdiaries/?p=1163