Once again our members and friends will open their yards to you to show you what they are doing to support birds and other wildlife.
 
For example, this native sunflower from last year's tour attracted a number of pollinators which provided a food source for insect-eating birds.  Its seeds in the fall provided food for our seed-eating friends. This plant is desert hardy and a beautiful addition to any landscape.

​About 50 children and adults from the Clark County Park's Winchester Nesters took a field trip to the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve in January.  Red Rock Audubon presents a program to this group once a month at the Winchester Dondero Cultural Center but this time decided change things up a little.
 

The Henderson Christmas Bird Count of 2019 took place on Wednesday, December 18th.

​The Henderson Circle routes cover both urban and natural area settings and are led by experienced birders. In the time since the first Henderson count, the human population in Clark County has expanded nearly tenfold, significantly changing the landscape for birds and other wildlife. Our Henderson Circle routes take us through wetlands, a bird viewing preserve, desert washes, a golf course, a lake, urban parks, and other urban areas, giving us a chance to collect data important to understanding how the local bird population is changing.

FYI here are the results of this year's Christmas Bird Count for the Red Rock Canyon Circle: • 19 volunteers participated

• 69 species recorded
• 1876 birds counted
• 26 miles walked
• 103 miles driven

Eleven volunteers completed the Lower Pahranagat CBC on December 15, 2019. We had grand total of 36,850 birds counted for the day. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge hosted the event. Volunteers met at the refuge’s visitor center, broke into groups, and headed out to the field. The temperatures ranged from the upper 20’s in the morning to the low 40’s by afternoon. The skies were clear and the winds were light, which made for a great day birding.

On Saturday December 14, 2019, Red Rock Audubon Society conducted the Corn Creek Christmas Bird Count. Fifteen participants braved our nice southern Nevada weather to count birds from sunrise to sunset. We recorded 77 species and 2,509 individual birds. Highlights included the Townsend’s solitaires, Le Conte’s thrashers, phainopeplas, and burrowing owls. Numbers of small songbirds like sparrows and warblers seemed to be low this year. Congratulations to CJ Vadovic and Daniel Mitev for participating in their first Christmas Bird count.

​The entire third grade from Ruby Thomas Elementary School visited the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve over three days in December. HBVP staff provided classroom instruction about birds and an outdoor migration game. RRAS volunteers led the students on a bird walk around Pond One and helped  students learn to identify some of the resident birds there.