Colorado birders preparing for annual Christmas counts

DENVER I Colorado children are not the only ones looking forward to the holiday season. Birders across the state are gearing up for two of the high points of the birding year, the Christmas Bird Count and the Midwinter Waterfowl Survey.
Thousands of people across the Western Hemisphere participate in the annual Christmas Bird Count, a grassroots effort to tally bird species from Canada to South America that traces its origins back more than 100…