The 89th Bronx-Westchester CBC count will be held on SUNDAY, December 23, 2012. The count covers the lower half of Westchester County and almost all of the Bronx. Many of the areas are accessible to NY City birders by subway and MetroNorth. If you’d like to help out visit the count’s web page at http://www.hras.org/bwcbc.html for area leader information or contact the count compiler, Michael Bochnik. The count has seen 225 species in its history and averages 115 each year. The count was started by the famed Bronx County Bird Club and has included participants such as Allan Cruickshank and Roger Tory Peterson THE NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY HAS DROPPED THE PARTICIPATION FEE. IT IS NOW FREE, BUT DONATIONS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
The compilation dinner will be at the Lenoir Nature Center (http://hras.org/wtobird/lenoir.html), 19 Dudley Street in Yonkers. The cost for the dinner is only $10. The center will be open by 4:30 PM for those who need a place to meet and total up your birds or just warm up. The food and count down will begin at 6:00 PM. Michael Bochnik -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
