I agree with you and very best wishes for a successful CBC! Wish I coud be there to go along with you ....maybe next year! Sent from my iPad Connie On Jan 1, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Charlotte Bill <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Our second-ever East Franklin County CBC is coming up this Saturday, January 4. > > Last year, we used a tape and added a responding Barred Owl to our count. I am very ambivalent about playing a tape this year. The ice storm left between 0.75 and 1 inch of ice on everything here (and left Hal and me without power for more than four days). > > I am thinking that owls in our area are already stressed and we should not be playing tapes this year simply to add them to the CBC count. > > I would truly appreciate discussion of/response to this issue on and/or off list. > > Thank you, > > Charlotte Bill > Enosburgh, VT > >