It's very fun and simple to do. You just count birds! You can look at the birds in your backyard, out your apartment window, at the park, or someplace else you like. For at least 15 minutes, count the kinds of birds that you see. Then, count the number of birds in each group.
We're using today as a test. Right now Mom and I are looking out our kitchen window. Our feeder is full of birds. We see three mourning doves, one Carolina wren, one downy woodpecker, two Cardinals, a Chickadee, seven American goldfinch, and eight house sparrows. There are three gray squirrels in the yard also, but they don't count!
If today were one of the Big Backyard Bird Count days, we would go to http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ to enter our list of birds.
We are very lucky to live on the central flyway. Our home is a place where birds like to come in the winter. Right now the beautiful Cedar Waxwings are migrating through our area. Sometimes it is hard to count them. So many fly in at the same time to eat the berries in our yard. They also keep flying around! If that happens, Mom takes a photo so that she can count them all!
I hope that you join us and enter the Big Backyard Bird Count, too! Here are some tools to help you get started...
If you would like to join the Big Backyard Bird Count, click on this link for instructions:
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/2013%20GBBC%20Instructions.pdf
Here's the checklist to make your bird count:
Don't know the names of the kinds of birds in your yard? Here's a great poster with pictures of common birds:
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