The 20th annual Ponca State Park CBC will be held on Saturday, December 14. For the first time the Count will be the centerpiece of Ponca’s Winterfest event. This count includes Ponca State Park, Powder Creek WMA and Buckskin Hills WMA as well as the Missouri River, its sandbars, backwaters and bluffs and can host over 60 species of birds. In the past, Greater Prairie Chicken, Black-legged Kittiwake, Golden Eagle, Prairie Falcon, Townsend’s Solitaire, Bohemian Waxwing and Mountain Bluebird have been found on the count.

Those interested in participating in this count should contact me, Bill Huser, at 712-574-3107 or email with your plans and meet at Ponca State Park’s Resource Center at 7:30 AM. The Park will provide a hot lunch at Noon where we will compare notes and plan the afternoon’s effort. Those interested in searching for owls before dawn, should contact Bill Huser before the count.