About 30 hearty souls ventured into a heavy snowstorm recently during the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count and tallied 647 birds.
Organized this year by the Takshanuk Watershed Council, the count is made in two, large “circles” in town and up the Haines Highway.
In the town circle, participants reported as much as six inches of snow falling while they counted. They saw 26 different species of birds, most of them typical for winter, said…
