Results Of The 2011 Great Backyard Bird Count

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Participants submitted more than 92,000 checklists to the GBBC this year--the third year in a row that checklists topped 90,000. New checklist records were set in 11 states and in 7 out of 13 Canadian provinces and territories, resulting in a new overall checklist record for Canada. Altogether, participants identified 596 species and 11.4 million bird observations.

Great Backyard Bird Count Highlights

Use Suet To Draw Birds To The Bird Feeder

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Nice article about suet drawing birds to the bird feeder.

But the birds dig this stuff. So over the weekend I got some suet for my feathery friends.

Such A Fuss Over A Little Fat

Migration Of The Songbirds

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Excellent article about the migration of many songbirds.

Several times in the past month, I have stood in one place and counted black-capped chickadees passing. This morning (Oct. 26), in about an hour, my husband and I counted 285. All of these birds were moving from west to east along the Lake Ontario shore cliff west of Port Hope.

We're experiencing an irruption