For at least three days in December and early January over the past 50 years, Jeff Sanders has gone outside in the predawn cold to count birds in and around Chicago.
In 2015, Sanders will celebrate a half-century since he began helping with the National Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count, just a few miles from his Glenview home. Since then, he has made it to nearly every count. And Sanders doesn’t even like cold weather.
“I hate winter birding,” he admitted.
But there’s something about the annual Christmas bird count that get him out of the house when it’s cold outside.
“There’s a purpose to this. And it’s historical,” Sanders said
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