Request For Information: A new Christmas Bird Count census area has been proposed for Meeker County at the potential locations below. If you have any experience in this area in the winter and would be so kind as to share your thoughts as to it's possible value as a CBC census circle please let me know. Additionally, if you may be interested in participating in a CBC at this location that would be valuable information also. 1. Forest City center = Kingston on the E rim, almost Watkins on the N rim, s of Manamah W rim, Litchfield and Darwin on the S rim. Advantages: Crow river valley runs through the middle, willow scrub lowland in the NW of a large waterfowl production area, Clear Lake habitat on the N. Disadvantages: Lots of farmland acreage and private land limiting access to good potential habitat spots. 2) move the center point to CSAH17/State Hwy 24 intersection (NE of Forest City). This catches the Stanley-Eddy Preserve in western Wright County, Kimball and Powder Ridge Ski area, Clear Lake and some WPA, Forest City and Kingston, but S rim misses Litchfield and Darwin. 3) center point w/ a western shift from Forest City, perhaps Manamah. Catches the headwater area of the Crow River out of Lake Koronis, goes out toward Grove City, catches some of Litchfield, Forest City in the SE quadrant, Clear Lake and the WPA, plus habitat up around Eden Valley. I am thinking Option 1 is best, but there may be birders who have more experience with northern Meeker that may advise otherwise. I like Option 2 for the reason of catching Stanley-Eddy area, but it would creep toward N. Wright a bit, but still plenty of room. Perhaps we can post a question about a Forest City center point on the MOU list and see what responses may come. Thanks, Carl Greiner M.O.U CBC Coordinator 1616 Hill St. S.W. Chatfield, MN. 55923 507-271-8286 cgreiner at mchsi.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071003/88269397/attachment.html