It was a cool, calm, and overcast day with the temperature in the 60’s. Our group was small this morning with Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne (who was kind enough to eBird), Ellen Tipping, Jim Stacy, Nancy Kappelmann, and Rick Shearer. The House Wrens were numerous and singing up a storm with one seen carrying nesting [...]

It was a beautiful, clear, calm, and sunny day.  Temperatures ranged from low 50s to mid 60s.  Surveyors were Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne, Dave and Sharon Telford, Jim Kendall, Jim Currie, Ellen Tipping, Clair Grozinger, Nancy Kapplemann, Maureen Myers, and Rick Shearer. Eleven of us started out together and split up at times to survey [...]

It was very cold, but the morning was beautiful, clear, calm, and sunny, with snow-capped mountains in the distance. Temperatures ranged from 45 degrees to low 60s.  Surveyors were Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne (eBird), Dave and Sharon Telford, Jim Kendall, Ellen Tipping, Barbara Wasbin and Laura K. Laura is one of the many hard-working volunteers [...]

Our thanks to Steve Morris for doing the Christmas bird count. The birders led by Lena Hayashi will return for the next count on Jan. 27, 2022 [...]

Because the wind blew all night and by morning, it was a quandary to decide if the survey was a go or not.  Brave souls Jim Kendall and Dave Telford ventured out to check conditions.  Though they reported back that the wind was fierce, and we had decided to postpone the survey until Friday, Jim [...]