This year’s Christmas Bird Count will be on Saturday, December 14. We hope that everyone who participated last year will be able to join us again. We’ll contact all of last year’s counters.Each route needs an expert birder or two, a scribe to accumulate the data, and a few pairs of eyes to observe the field. Some of our 14 routes are quite extensive, so we are working to subdivide some of them into more manageable segments.

We also need feeder watcher/counters. If you have a feeder at your home and are willing to count for some time interval on December 14, please sign up so we have good regional coverage.

Leader of the water route birding crew is Bob Boekelheide of our neighbor chapter Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society and the Dungeness River Center. Bob graciously contributes his skill to our count each year and he is hopeful that some of us can return the favor for the Dungeness/OPAS CBC (December 16). You can contact Bob directly at bboek@olympus.net to volunteer.

Email admiraudub@gmail.com for questions or to sign up to participate in Admiralty Audubon’s CBC. Our Countdown potluck after the field effort to compile our results and celebrate will again be at Rosewind Commons at 5pm. We hope you will join us for the Countdown even if you don’t have a chance to count in the field. Thank you!