[Birdtalk] Great Backyard Bird Count... 164 Species this year!

[Dave Hanscom]

Thanks for the encouragement, Tim.  After seeing the crossbills on Thurs, 
I lucked out and emerged from my house yesterday morning to the tune of a 
huge flock of them in my spruce trees.  I'd guess there were 30 White- 
winged and 10 Red, along with a few other assorted species.  Since the 
crossbills might be a unique Utah observation in the GBBC (it's certainly 
unique from my experience, either at home or anywhere else in Utah!), I 
decided to send in a report.

Dave Hanscom

PS: There were a few of them in my trees when I went out to get my paper 
this morning, but they immediately took off.  Hopefully they'll come back
one of these days and stay long enough for me to get a photo.

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Tim Avery wrote:

> Thanks to Doug for reminding people that this weekend is the Great 
> Backyard Bird Count.
> 
> Despite the name, this count is not limited to your backyards!  So if 
> you go birding ANYWHERE in Utah this weekend, please submit your 
> checklists to help gather information through this growing count.
> 
> You may submit sighting information from any location you go birding 
> over the next 4 days!!!  In 2008 we managed to climb our way to 163 
> species for the count with 126,803 individual birds, the most ever for 
> Utah.  Let's beat that and tally 164 species this year.  You can submit 
> your numbers at the following link:
> 
> http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/
> 
> Here is a link to last years results for Utah:
> 
> http://gbbc.birdsource.org/gbbcApps/report?cmd=showReport&reportName=StateSummary&state=US-UT&year=2008
> 
> If you have any questions about the GBBC or submitting checklists please 
> feel free to contact me for more information.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim