Plan to count and be counted as one of the global participants in the annual back yard bird count. It is coming up this weekend starting February 15 through 18th.
To learn more about the Great Backyard Bird count go to http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ The site has a host of information on last year’s statistics, birds, photo contests.
To be part of the global count check out the EarthSky blog http://earthsky.org/earth/2013-great-backyard-bird-count-goes-global which has the data entry forms to download and tips on bird identification.