Boise area birders

As many of you are already aware, it’s almost Christmas Bird Count season (!) and the Boise count is this coming Saturday, Dec 14.  Please join us if you’re interested in helping to assess the winter bird population here!

Details:

• Where to meet: unless you’ve communicated to Rob & I
  about an alternate plan, please come to Idaho Fish & Game’s state
  headquarters office at 600 S Walnut at 7am – go around the back (~NE entrance) and find us in the Trophy Room
• by 730-745am, we’ll aim to have everyone assigned to a territory/team and on their way to finding/counting birds
• Post-count dinner – our plan is to gather after dark (~530-6pm, depending on how long it takes folks to commute from where they finish counting)
  at Smoky Mountain Pizza at 1805 W State St where we’ve reserved a back
  room and will pre-order at least some pizzas to be sure the early birds
  get fed!
• It will be very helpful for us to have a head count to approximate how much food to order – thus, please:
• RSVP (not to IBLE! but to myself & Rob)
• let us know your ideal for toppings
• bring some cash to pitch in for the food & drinks!

• The attached map file shows the CBC circle and the different “territories” we’ve divided the count circle into.  For most of these we have CBC veterans already assigned but we’re always happy to enlarge the team and very happy to add bird identification & counting skills 🙂
• Rob Magill (rmagill@…) and I (carlislejay@…) are the co-compilers – you don’t have to sign up ahead of time but, if you haven’t already reached out and are planning on participating, we’d be happy to hear from you
• Interested in some pre-dawn owling?  We’d love your help with that!  Please just coordinate with us so we don’t send 2 groups to the same area 🙂