[Tweeters] Come Join The Big Sit, Oct 13, 2024 (Discovery Park, Seattle)

[Elaine Chuang via Tweeters]

If you’re casting about for something birdy to do two weeks from today, Oct 13, come take part in The Big Sit <https://www.thebigsit.org/>, birding’s most sedentary activity.  Or as Neil Zimmerman points out, The Big SNACK.  Join our intrepid Discovery Park team where we will be stationed within the requisite 17 foot circle at the Sand Dunes (47°39'25.2"N 122°25'17.8”W), next to the bluff.  We take up our post there starting at 6:00AM, and will persevere racking up species for as long as we can manage (the rule is to confine the count to a 24 hour period).  

Come by for as short or as long a visit as you wish.  Wave if you are sailing by on Elliott Bay, or clue us into Brown Pelicans heading our way.  We welcome your eyes and ears, encouragement, snacks, etc.  For reference, our team, the "South Meadowlarks” formally identified 56 species last year from within the constraints of that 17 foot circle (not counting the Common Poorwill seen on the way, and a Great Horned Owl heard before we commenced).  The question is, how many will we identify this year?  Hope to see ya!

Elaine   elc at uw dot edu


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