GBBC Party

The Great Backyard Bird Count is a great excuse to have a bird party!  No matter what kind of organization you are in, you can use the GBBC to introduce people to birds.  Have a 15 minute bird count from the windows at your office and invite your office mates.  Take a child or grandkid out for a birdwalk.  And if you run a nature center, birding store, or other bird-related organization or business, feel free to use the GBBC to shamelessly promote your own bird-related programs. 

Here's an example, a GBBC activity for kids of all ages at the Shelby Bottoms Nature Center in Nashville.   A quick note from the center director:

Shelby Bottoms Nature Center is hosting a free, open to the public program for all ages on Saturday Feb 16th to introduce the GBBC to our patrons and to encourage them to participate at home too. We are a brand new nature center and we're really looking forward to promoting Citizen Science. We, from the older and more established Warner Park Nature Center, have been contributing data to Cornell's nestbox monitoring project for Shelby Bottoms Greenway and Nature Park for several years. SBNC is located in a very urban park and so we intend to participate in the Urban Bird Studies as well and probably more. In addition, we are a designated Important Bird Area and we are currently forming an advisory committee and will be getting to work soon.

So have your own GBBC party and have a birding blast!