The Fort Atkinson area will have a birding day on Saturday, Dec. 19.
Area residents were told in an article appearing recently in the Daily Jefferson County Union that there will be no Christmas Bird Count, as such this year, due to the COVID-19 virus.
This annual event is sponsored by the National Audubon Society and locally is one of the Friends of Rose Lakeâs cooperative activities.
Normally groups of birders go afield in assigned areas, within a 25-mile radius, to count species and numbers of birds seen or heard, and then have a meeting to tally the findings. But, this does not fit the rules of fighting this virus problem.