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The birds are counting on us
Posted on December 7th, 2009 4 comments Add a comment >>The 110th National Audubon Christmas Bird Count will soon be going on across North and South America, the Caribbean, and, for the first time, Antarctica. The count starts on December 14 and ends January 5. In the 109th count, a record 2,124 count circles took part.
Black-capped chickadee
Right here in the Adirondacks there are five bird counts. Only the Ferrisburg, Vt., count (Dec. 12, leader Mike Winslow), which includes the New York side of Lake Champlain, has enough observers. The other counts could use your help.
So if you want to get a little fresh air and watch some birds along the way, contact one of the leaders below. Feeder watchers are also very important as there isn’t much wild food out there. Many of the birds will be tallied at feeders. The more participants the merrier at this time of the year when we are in between the fall and winter seasons.
The leaders, or compilers, follow:
Old Forge count: Dec. 19, Gary Lee, 315 357-5150.
Elizabethtown count: Dec. 20, Charlotte Demers, 518 582-2157.
Plattsburgh count: Dec. 20. Judith Heintz, 518 563-5273.
Saranac Lake count: Jan. 2, Larry Master, 518 645-1545.
For more information, visit the Northern New York Audubon website.
4 responses to “The birds are counting on us”
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Gary,
It’s great to see you on the Explorer site. You will be a strong addition and I’m sure you’ll have fun. -
Kathy Partridge December 17th, 2009 at 15:59
Gary,
Every time I read your column in the paper, I think to myself, “Gary should do a blog”. Glad to see it happen – and it will be great to see your photos in color too.
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A huge challenge is convincing my husband because he is stuck in we’ve always done it that way’ or i’ve been doing it this way since i was a kid’ etc. I’m having a tough time with the increased cost and inconvience of going to the farmers market. Right now the budget just is not available to pay $16 instead of $5 a week for milk etc and having to leave work in the middle of the day to go to the farmers market over 1/2 hour away. But I am doing what I can.
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Name: Gary
Bio: Gary Lee is a passionate birder and naturalist who worked as a New York State forest ranger for thirty-five years, mostly in the Moose River Plains and West Canada Lakes Wilderness. With John M.C. Peterson, he coauthored Adirondack Birding: 60 Great Places to Find Birds, distributed by the Adirondack Mountain Club. He has written a weekly newspaper column, often focusing on birds and other wildlife, since 1986, first for the Adirondack Express, later for Adirondack Weekly. His photographs of birds have appeared in the Adirondack Explorer and other publications. Gary is a graduate of the New York State Ranger School in Wanakena. He lives in Inlet with his wife, Karen. They have three children and four grandchildren.
Tom Woodman December 16th, 2009 at 10:47