Date: 10/8/25 10:53 am From: Elaine Chuang via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Come Join The Big Sit! Sat, Oct 11, 2025 (Discovery Park, Seattle)
If you're casting about for something birdy to do this Saturday, Oct 11, consider taking part in The Big Sit <https://www.thebigsit.org/>, birding's most sedentary activity. Or as our local longtime leader, Neil Zimmerman calls it, The Big SNACK. Join our intrepid team at Discovery Park where we will be stationed within the requisite 17 foot circle at the Sand Dunes (47°39'25.2"N 122°25'17.8"W), next to the bluff. We take up our post there starting at 6:00AM (for owls) and will persevere racking up species, seen or heard, for as long as we can manage (the rule is to confine the count to a 24 hour period).
Come by for as short or as long a visit as you wish. We welcome your eyes and ears, encouragement, snacks, etc. Wave if you are sailing by on Elliott Bay, or clue us into Brown Pelicans or shearwaters heading our way around Westpoint. Our team, the "South Meadowlarks" formally finds 55 - 60 species each year from within the constraints of that 17 foot circle. The question is, how many will we identify this year? Hope to see ya for some good birding and camaraderie!
