Canal Count in the News
A reporter from the Montgomery Gazette joined longtime canal count volunteers Janet Millenson, Brad Beukema, and Chris Wright for a morning of surveying bird life along the C&O Canal.
Peering through binoculars, flipping through field guides and pointing enthusiastically into the tree canopy, birders who took part in the 11th annual C&O Canal Midwinter Bird Survey may have turned a few heads among hikers and bikers along the towpath Saturday.
While it may have seemed out of the ordinary to some, the data the bird enthusiasts collected was a "snap shot" of the mid-winter bird population in the C&O Canal — when paired with other data, the information may help over time in determining long-term trends and broader environmental shifts that may affect those changes.
