The National Audubon 115th CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT for the O'Shaughnessy CBC circle is Wednesday December 31, 2014. The OHOS CBC circle takes in the counties of NW Franklin, SW Delaware and NE Union Counties and includes western Powell, southern Delaware, northern Dublin and eastern Marysville including a portion of Plain City and all of Shawnee Hills. It includes Glacier Ridge Metro Park, The Columbus Zoo, Emily Traphagen PP and Blues Creek PP and a long portion of the Scioto River shoreline and Ohio Wildlife Center and the Twin Lakes area. I am looking for volunteer counters/participants again this year and both experienced and beginners/students are welcome!! I also welcome feeders counters. I set up areas within the circle as much as I can the week before, so please let me know as soon as possible if you can help. We meet at 7:15 am at the Wendy's at Glick Rd & Dublin Rd, to take care of paperwork, and we try to be on territory by sunrise 7:55 am. Then we meet at Iacano's in Shawnee Hills between 4:30-5:30pm to turn in totals, have dinner and socialize about the day's fun and who gets bragging rights Teams receive a packet of materials for the circle portion they are covering. Come for all or part of the time. If you want to help at GRMP or OWC then you meet at 8am and contact me for more details about these mostly walking locations. I look forward to hearing from you and hope you can join us on Wednesday Dec. 31, 2014. This is the 115th CBC and this is always a lot of fun for the participants who take part in this long running citizen science project. I know many of you enjoy helping with several CBC's. Learn more at http://birds.audubon.org/christmas-bird-count Contact Darlene Sillick, OHOS CBC compiler at [log in to unmask] or text/cell 614-288-3696 if you are interested in helping. Thanks ~ Darlene ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]