February’s habitat restoration work party at Marymoor Park was held on an extra muddy day with all the rain in King County. It was so muddy, that our Gator utility vehicle couldn’t use the non-paved section of trail.
A Call to Action: Protect Birds and Their Habitat
By now most readers will have heard of the study published by the Science Journal in October, which reports a loss of 3 billion birds, resulting in a reduction of 29% since the 1970s level of bird abundance in the United States and Canada. The study, a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the American Bird Conservancy, reports an astounding loss of bird life on our continent.