Christmas Bird Count
Title: Christmas Bird Count
Location: Edmonton
Description: Join Edmonton-area birders for this annual event. Sign up at the December 18 event at the Royal Alberta Museum or The Wildbird General Store. Come to the John Janzen Nature Centre for the count wrap-up and supper. Bring a potluck dish of your choice.
Date: 2009-12-20
In a recent Edmonton Journal account, it was stated that no Bohemian Waxwings were seen during the annual count. I would like you to know that Bonnyville is teeming with the birds – they fly in flocks of 100′s as they do every year. This year is different. They came to eat the bountiful mountain ash berries and crabapples, only this year these trees were frozen in the early winter snap. The birds are hungry – and are flying around trying to find food. The mountain ash berries are being swept up off sidewalks, and the birds have tried eating them but merely spit them out when they find they are not edible. I wonder if all these birds will survive the winter? Marjorie Froise