This morning, on my commute, a chilling rain was coming down hard. My cars thermometer read 36F. My wife and I were discussing how lucky we were to have that extra 4 degrees. By noon our luck ran out and the rain had switched to huge, fluffy, wet snowflakes. By quitting time a couple inches covered the ground. Our commute home passed 3 cars in the ditch and a semi-truck/pickup truck accident. I also saw several thousand blackbirds and a quarter dozen red-tails. Snow.poor driving conditions.birds, It must be almost time for the Minnesota Christmas Bird Count!
For the past couple years I have nagged you to get out and join a CBC starting in September and roughly monthly thereafter until the CBC season opens. This year I have been negligent and it is almost November and I have yet to remind anyone of the importance of the CBC. I have not even brought up the immeasurable fun you would have if you joined a CBC. It reminds me of an cartoon someone sent me this week. Two dinosaurs are standing on a cliff overlooking the sea. In the distance Noah's Ark is sailing away. One dinosaur turns to the other and says "Crap, was that today?" It really is funny if you can see the cartoon. So shake the mothballs out of your long underwear and head to http://moumn.org/CBC/index.php and find a location or two or three. and join up. Oh and in case you were getting used to my old notifications and am wondering who cares about 2 inches of snow, dinosaurs, and Noah's Ark. St. Paul North now leads Bloomington in the Metro Mallard Wars 169,661 to 165,065. As a side note we only have 26,160 more to go to reach a million Mallards counted on the CBC. In the past 3 years, we have counted approximately 25,000, 30,000, and 42,000 Mallards. The odds are good. Imagine the crowds that would gather around you at the next cocktail party as you told the story of how you braved the elements to uncover Minnesota's millionth Mallard. Feel free to contact me with any CBC related questions or visit http://moumn.org/CBC or http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/ Carl Greiner M.O.U CBC Coordinator 1616 Hill St. S.W. Chatfield, MN. 55923 507-271-8286 [email protected] <blocked::mailto:[email protected]> ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
