December  14th begins this year's Audubon Christmas Bird Count season.
That's a mere month  away and the Circle Compilers around Ohio are busily
working on their  preparations. Check the Audubon web site for a circle near you
and join in.  You'll meet some great people, have fun and contribute to an
important Audubon  activity.
The  Hoover Reservoir Christmas Bird Count (Delaware County) will be held
Saturday, December 17, 2011. I will have several teams meet at 8:00 AM in
the  parking lot at the Hoover Reservoir Dam and send them out to cover the
east  and west side of Hoover Reservoir and The Hoover Nature Preserve.
Additional  teams will meet at Alum Creek State Park (8:00 AM), Highbanks Metro
Park (8:00  AM) and Sharon Woods Metro Park (10:00 AM), Inniswood Metro
gardens (8:00  AM), and in the vicinity of the Olentangy River north of
Worthington. If you  would like to join one of the teams, give me a call at (614)
891-5706 or email  me at [log in to unmask]
(mailto:[log in to unmask])   for details.
This  is also a good time to remind Christmas Bird Count Compilers and
Participants  that for the 2011 fall gun deer-hunting season, the Ohio
Department of Natural  Resources has again extended the season to include extra
weekends. ODNR added an  extra weekend in deer gun season on December 17 and 18,
2011. If you participate  in any area that may have hunters present you
should wear something with Hunter  Orange as a safety factor. The last thing you
want to do is to wear a white hat  or any other white apparel that could
cause a hunter to think you are a  white-tailed deer.
May  we all have a safe and productive Christmas Bird Counts.
Charlie  Bombaci, Compiler
Hoover  Reservoir CBC Circle

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