Christmas Bird Count Series – Steve’s little adventure: CBC #1 – Middle Fork River Valley (East-Central Illinois) – 14 December 2014
I first started helping on Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) in the winter of 1978-79. My cousin Jim Bailey and I helped on Marilyn Campbell’s Forest Glen CBC which she had been running for about ten years. Gradually I tacked on helping on a count here and a count there. Then in 1984, I decided that there was a lot of great land in the northern part of my home county of Vermilion that would make for a great 2nd Christmas Bird Count circle in the county. So, after an initial strategy meeting with fellow birding friends from Vermilion County Dave Watson and Jim Smith in a Danville restaurant, it was decided to come up with a new count circle.
Longtime birding pal Jim Smith and I at the 2009 Middlefork CBC compilation.
The Forest Glen CBC circle came north to the southern edge of Danville, right about where I-74 passes…
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