Category Archives: Birding

The Great Backyard Bird Count

This is the weekend for The Great Backyard Bird Count. We participated last year, this year, I pretty much did it by myself. We have too much going on around the house to focus the whole team on the project.

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It was kind of boring at the house. Just a bunch of sparrows. I counted about a dozen in fifteen minutes. I think it was a dozen different ones. Just between you and me they all look alike. Now of course there are a bunch of different sparrows, I hadn’t id’d them yet, I’ve learned that id’ing birds is more than matching up photographs.


We went on a family walk around Lafortune Park. I took the opportunity to do another count. It’s not my backyard but hey I’m cheating, turn me in if you want.

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I counted close to a hundred Canadian Geese. They are here year round now.

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About 15 mallard ducks. Most of them males and some females.

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Now you experienced bird counters out there, do the birds have to be awake when you count them?

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Also, I didn’t see this one in the regional bird survey. Anybody know what it is?

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Also, I didn’t see where to input this specimen. It was actually my favorite.

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