. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. V Carolina in a year. "You get kind of excited â on January 1st you say. 'Hey cardinal!' It whets your appetite ; Fussell came by his love for birds honestly. His family introduced him to avians at an early age. "My father and I used to 'squeak up' catbirds and other common ; he says. To this day. his mother bakes pound cakes for the Baltimore orioles that winter in his parents' back yard; they're also treated to Kool-Aid and apple jelly. Fussell chose birds as the subject f
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. V Carolina in a year. "You get kind of excited â on January 1st you say. 'Hey cardinal!' It whets your appetite ; Fussell came by his love for birds honestly. His family introduced him to avians at an early age. "My father and I used to 'squeak up' catbirds and other common ; he says. To this day. his mother bakes pound cakes for the Baltimore orioles that winter in his parents' back yard; they're also treated to Kool-Aid and apple jelly. Fussell chose birds as the subject for a third-grade school project. And in fourth grade, his parents gave him his first pair of binoculars. Not long after that, he signed up for a bird-banding expedition sponsored by a museum. The group's plans to band pelicans at Ocracoke was foiled by bad weather, so Fussell and his older and experienced companions "mostly just sat around in the cabin and talked about ; It was thrilling, he says. The group made it to Cape Lookout later in the trip, where they banded young terns and skimmers. In 1962. Fussell was given a gift subscription to The Chat, an ornithology journal. It was there he read about the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, in which he eagerly participated the following year and many years since. The event takes place throughout North America over a 2 1 2-week period that always includes Christmas Day; partici- pants count every individual bird and species they can find within a 15-mile diameter circle from midnight to midnight on a given day at each site. The information collected by Christ- mas Bird Count volunteers is invaluable. For example, the findings can help define the parameters of a bird's range. "Ornithol ogy. more than any other science, is furthered bv ; Fussell savs. Fussell "hit a plateau" during his high school years. Surfing quickly took priority over birding. His college ornithology classes and a
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