Mapping birds' feeding habitats Last October, I signed up my family, with great enthusiasm, for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's yearly citizen science survey, Project FeederWatch. The premise is simple: You watch birds and report what you see. I paid the $18 fee and received a cool poster and some simple directions in the mail. I went out and bought birdseed and a bird feeder, which I set up outside our kitchen window. The only part I remember from the directions is this sentence: "Even if you only count once all season, your data are valuable!" Guess what? We still haven't submitted a single tally. Life has been overly full lately.