On Sunday the 5th of January, the Vashon-Maury Island Audubon Society held its sixteenth Christmas Bird Count (CBC). We’re still adding up the numbers, so the final word isn’t in, but so far it looks like it was a fairly normal year. Some bird species were up slightly and many seemed somewhat but not excessively down. There were a number of fun and exciting highlights and one big lowlight: Western Grebes showed an all time, disastrous low.