I donno bluebird, maybe we outta join the christmas bird count. Would give us a few possible courses of action that we could find enjoyable. When they ask how many birds we saw, we could hold up ONE particular finger (LOL) or we could say about 20 times what we actually saw to prevent the clowns from blaming too few birds on too many deer, just as they do already on a continual basis.

I found this in another audubon article on the topic of the bird count you mentioned in original post.

"Each of the citizen scientists who brave snow, wind, or rain, to take part in the Christmas Bird Count make an enormous contribution to conservation. Audubon and other organizations use data collected in this longest-running wildlife census to assess the health of bird populations - and to help guide conservation action."

a dozenless birds this christmas and our allocations will rise by 5k per management unit! (LOL)[:'(]