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Re: Boise CBC preliminary species total
My wife is a Bengal, ’78, and she watched while I counted, although I did check in to catch a bit of the game and a bite to eat. My first CBC, too. I went on to be the Boise count compiler for about 20 years.
Dean
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Re: Boise CBC preliminary species total
Jim, that was our very first CBC as well!
Ken was looking forward to a relaxing weekend that involved watching the Idaho State Bengals play in the 1981 NCAA Division I-AA football championship game. I convinced him to watch and count birds instead. He has never forgiven me. The day was cold and cloudy and the birds were few and far between, and darn it if the Bengals didn’t win the championship!! Thank goodness for DVR technology! 39 years later and we are still participating in CBCs!
Re: Boise CBC preliminary species total
Jay, thanks for sharing some highlights. I wasn’t there to participate, and appreciate knowing what you found.
Thanks to all who were out there looking! Some of my best birding times were CBCs in Anchorage, AK many years and several when I first moved to Boise and needed to learn the local birds.
Participating in a CBC is a great way to learn, practice, and share birding skills and knowledge.
Diann Stone Boise Depot Bench
Re: Boise CBC preliminary species total
Thanks for the memories, Jim. I believe Karen Andreason and I saw the green heron(s).
Dean Jones
Re: Alan Gregory
I don’t think I ever set foot in Venango. I was a volunteer at Hawk Mt. Sanctuary for most of the 1990s and ran two North American Breeding Bird Survey routes in Pennsylvania (LIttle Marsh in Tioga and Potter counties was always fun; lots of species).
Re: Boise CBC preliminary species total
Kudos to our Boise CBC leaders, and participants!
I mentioned last night the 1981 count, my first. I’m attaching a scan of the page with our count, as published in American Birds – no kids, not on papyrus, but close 🙂
Seeing how the birds (and birders) have changed is one of the great appeals of our Christmas Bird Count, both from a scientific and more global perspective, but also from a personal and very specific perspective.
Jumping out at me beyond our 67 species were the count-week-but-not-count-day species : Pied-billed Grebe, Wood Duck, Ruddy Duck, and Mourning Dove.
Alan Gregory
When in PA.did you bird venango COUNTY near oil city