Yesterday, I participated in the Audubon Society’s 125th annual Christmas Bird Count. The morning started with drizzle, cool temperatures, and gusty winds. My team of 6 was charged with counting birds along the Ferrari Pond Trail in Lincoln Hills where I live. I’m told we had fewer birds than last year but we did see quite a few different species. Even the golf course Canada Geese got counted. I don’t have the final count from our efforts yesterday but along with finches and sparrows and water fowl, we saw several raptors including a Red Shouldered Hawk, an American Kestrel, a Turkey Vulture and this immature Cooper’s hawk perched on the railing of a residence that faces the marshy pond. Even though it was on a resident’s fence, it counts, too.