Jerry Malarick News Today

bcoupland@tribtoday.com MECCA — With their binoculars and long-lens cameras, area bird-watchers did their part this holiday season to record the number of different species of birds they saw as part of the annual Christmas bird count. A small group gathered at the Mosquito Creek Waterfowl Management Division of Wildlife area where they recorded everything from trumpeter swans to eagles. Howland resident Carole Babyak said the bird count is held around the winter solstice with bird-watchers to...