2011 Christmas Bird Count

6am & 24 degrees, 1 cup of coffee and we start looking for Owls. After visiting 3 different parks in our ‘circle’ with no luck, we headed to Perkins for some breakfast and warmth.  Following breakfast, we spent the next 4 hours wandering from open space to open...

Hermit Thrush on Christmas Bird Count

What do you see when you get up at 5:00 am on a cold December morning and go birding? Today was the St. Paul Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count. Over 50 brave souls car pooled around St. Paul and suburbs counting everything that moved including Sparrows and...