STEVENSVILLE CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29TH 

By Dave Lockman 

The 54th annual Stevensville Christmas Bird Count is scheduled for Saturday, December 29th. We hope you’ll be able to join us for a fun day (or morning) of meeting new folks and finding birds in our local winter wonderland. It’s a big area and we need all the help we can get. Experience is helpful, but certainly not required. Field observers will meet in the basement conference room of the Stevensville Ranger Station between 7:30 and 7:45 AM to form small teams and get area assignments. Birders who live in the Count Circle (anywhere within 7.5 miles of the Ranger Station) can opt to get up at their leisure and count the birds on their property. Both types of counters are critical to a successful count. You don’t have to spend all day counting birds, any time you have is helpful. 

Bird counters on last year’s Stevensville CBC found 13,017 birds of 82 different species. We didn’t find any new species, so our total cumulative species count remains at 158. There are always some interesting birds out there just waiting to be discovered, so come and help us find all the common and unusual birds hiding in our winter landscape. I will unfortunately be out of town on Count Day, so Deborah Goslin has once again agreed to lead the charge. Please contact her at 214- 7879 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.