'Tis the season: Christmas Bird Count season

Chicago Tribune column highlights a holiday tradition

Image by Charley Harper.

You might recall my post from two years ago, “Standing in the cold woods at 4 a.m., aka why I love the Christmas Bird Count.”

As I wrote then:

A day looking for birds is a day well spent. That’s what possesses us to rise early and walk the wintry fields and woods of Chicagoland on a random day in December. It means rising before …