Fair Meadows Sanctuary and State Natural Area is home to a wonderful diversity of habitats and birds, including in winter! The annual Christmas Bird Count is a great citizen science project that involves meeting other enthusiastic birders and helping collect important data about birds at the same time!
Penny and Gary Shackelford, resident managers of Fair Meadows, have been tallying birds at the sanctuary since the early 2000s, concurrently with the Fort Atkinson CBC. Starting in 2023, Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance began offering a separate and fun Fair Meadows Christmas Bird Count! Although Fair Meadows does not have its own CBC circle, SoWBA submits data to eBird as CBC data anyway.
Twelve experienced birders are welcome to join this bird count and walk through Fair Meadow Sanctuary near Milton in groups of four to count birds between 9:30 am and 3:30 pm. Participants are invited to a mid-day break in the house for chili and socializing. There will be quite a bit of hiking, possibly through snow.
Register here.