Birding - The Big Sit

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As an alternative to birding from car parks or from the bed, in Utah they have “The Big Sit”.

Regards

Bruce Wedderburn

-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of Eric Huish
Sent: Tuesday, 15 October 2002 5:08 AM
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Subject: [birdnet] The Big Sit

Hi everyone,  Yesterday KC and I participated in The Big Sit. On October 13th people all around the country (and in other countries) sat in one place

and counted the birds they saw. I had always wanted to try a big sit.  It is

not very scientific like the CBC, it is just for fun, and is more relaxing

than a Big Day.  I enjoyed it.  Check out The Big Sit web site at-

http://members.aol.com/nhbirdclub/bigsit.htm

We could only count birds we saw or heard from a 17 foot diameter circle. 

We decided to sit out at Lincoln Point(Utah Lake, Utah County)near the

orchards along the side of the road.  We sat from 7:15 AM- 2:00 PM and went

out again from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM.  We saw a total of 42 species.  Most

interesting was Merlin, Herring Gull, RN Duck and Bufflehead. We had lots of

misses I thought we would get such as Canada Goose, RT Hawk, Starling and

Magpie to mention a few and We saw a Forster's Tern and Lincoln's Sparrow

when we stoped there the day before that didn't show up for our count.