Bird Count Saturday May 12 by Matt Heyden

Details for Meet, Greet, Eat and Count

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

This is Space Coast Audubon’s participation plan for the North American Migration Count.
Matt Heyden will be the coordinator for Brevard County for this spring count. If you would like to participate in the count and/or the picnic, please contact him at 321-264-8909or mheyden716@aol.com. His address is 516 Lake Dr. Titusville, Fl. 32780

At this point in time, all areas are open. No one has claimed any areas, so call now to reserve your favorite! You can count for as long or as short a time as you wish. You can even include feeder counts. The form just asks you to keep track of how long you bird, whether by foot , car, or boat and climatic conditions.

The picnic location for this spring count is Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge visitor’s center. We will be there from 1PM to 2 PM. We’ll be meeting, greeting and eating in the parking lot. Folks can turn in their tally sheets at that time, or if they wish to continue their count, they can email or mail the sheets to Matt before May 22. Everyone should bring their own lunch.

Do come…because this is the opportunity to make new friends and talk bird sightings. We have over 1,000 members just in this county.

Some guidelines:

• Anyone can participate. You can bird alone if you know what you’re doing. You can bird with someone else, or if you are completely new to this, Matt will try to place you with someone in your region.
• We’re trying to cover this entire huge county, so there is lots to do, and everyone is both welcome and needed.
• This is important. If it weren’t important….we wouldn’t be doing this. These data are vital to bird conservation studies.
• Our education chair person, Lora Losi has strongly suggested that we bring along young non-birders, to expose them to the fun side of what we do.
• Make it fun. This isn’t a competition. We’re doing it for the birds