2022 Madison-area CBC results

2022 Madison-area CBC results

Each December, birders come together for the longest-running citizen science project in the US: the Christmas Bird Count. The national effort is coordinated by National Audubon Society, but there are thousands of counts done locally, coordinated by local birders. In the Madison-area, the count is coordinated by Madison Audubon, and put on with help from over 100 volunteers each year.

Photo by Arlene Koziol

Eagle Entanglement

Eagle Entanglement

On Monday December 5, I was called to break up a fight. But this wasn’t an ordinary argument—it was between two Bald Eagles that had become entangled so completely that they were stuck together on the ground in front of UW Farms, about half a mile south of Goose Pond.

Madison Audubon photo

Falco peregrinus: The Wandering Raptor

In late October, Goose Pond seed collector Aidan Karlsson and I saw a large bird with crisply pointed-wings and tight black and white stripes fly over us. Immediately I thought it was a Peregrine Falcon, but I wondered: is it likely to see a Peregrine Falcon at Goose Pond at this time of year?

Photo by Arlene Koziol