Audubon 13th Annual Backyard Bird Count Feb.12 - 15

The National Audubon Society is asking everyone to join this year's Great Backyard Bird Count Feb. 12 - 15 to count birds in backyards, local parks, and wildlife refuges.

The results of this year's count will help researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society, and Bird Studies Canada learn how bird populations are doing - and how to help them.

While I've been out painting this week, I've seen brown pelicans like the one pictured here sunning on Jeremy Creek in McClellanville, cormorants, anhingas, mallard ducks, widgeons, and one of my all time favorites - the great white egret.
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