The count for the 8th of Feb was: zone 4-433 zone 5-3665 zone 6-2872 zone 7-2464 zone 8-1218 zone 9-224 I am using the "posted by" date to add these up so if you did jugs yesterday but posted today I'm gonna use todays date for the count. That way I don't have to go back and add jugs to a day and redo that days count :-) Total for all zones is ten thousand eight hundred seventy six! -B

Thanks, Jane. Mass Audubon and the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences (which started out as the Manomet Bird Observatory) have probably increased awareness of birds in Eastern MA. Besides, we have the advantage of harboring both shore and land-bound birds. It's fun to check out other towns and states to see what we have in common, and what outlandish birds (by New England standards) some people see every day. The Hawaii State Tally is a mix of wonderful sounding names and birds we also share. They saw Elepaio and Omao and Red-billed Leiothrix and Rock Pigeons and House Sparrows. Today is my second count day for Project FeederWatch, so it's back to the Downy Woodpeckers and Blue Jays and Northern Cardinals and Song Sparrows ..... Claire

I received a GBBC newsletter this morning and they state that so far: The numbers tell the story. With its new global reach, the 16th annual Great Backyard Bird Count becomes the largest worldwide bird count ever! As of today: 4 Days 103 Countries 120,000+ Checklists 3,144 Species 25.6+ Million birds That species total represents nearly one-third of the bird species in the entire world. Bird watchers in the U.S. and Canada set new national records for tallies submitted. Reports have come in from as far away as Antarctica and Afghanistan. So far, 30 states and 3 provinces have set new records for checklist entries. Here are the top ten countries by checklists submitted so far: United States 107,538 Canada 10,970 India 391 Mexico 263 Australia 143 United Kingdom 84 Peru 83 Puerto Rico 79 Iceland 78 Portugal 72 and they show a picture of a Japanese Green Woodpecker that is beautiful! Japanese Green Woodpecker by Masami Yoshimura, 2013 GBBC I submitted a number of checklists: one each day from my yard, two looking out at the bay to count shorebirds, and five from various spots nearby. Highlights for me were seeing the Green-winged Teal again at the Ellisville Harbor State Park and a huge raft of Common Eider in the Cape Cod Canal. It took me four days of counting before the turkeys decided to show up but I did manage to get them in (not that they're rare here but it wouldn't be a count without them). Claire

Very nice pictures, Hostanista - I hope you reported all of these birds to the GBBC! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An interim report as the GBBC winds up, with lots of information on what birds were seen where: GBBC eNewsletter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And as of 5:40 PM Feb. 20, 2014 Checklists Submitted from 131 countries: 133571 Total Species Observed: 4005 Total Individual Birds Counted: 16471475 and there's still checklists coming in! Claire