We invite you to bird with us as we stroll with us through the old tombstones at the Silver Terrace Cemetery in Virginia City and get into the Halloween spirit. This will be a great trip for beginning birders! While 8 AM may not be the spookiest hour, it’ll be easier to see birds this way. Feel free to come in costume, or not! Several of Nevada’s cemeteries are filled with trees and surrounded by stark desert, this attracts migrating birds to seek solace in the trees. Please RSVP to outreach@gbbo.org. This trip will be free, but, as always, your donations are greatly appreciated!

We had a great time on this trip last year! Check out the 2021 Cemetery Bird Prowl species list below:

3 California Quail

X Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)

1 Cooper's Hawk

1 Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk

1 Red-tailed Hawk

3 Northern Flicker

1 California Scrub-Jay

3 California/Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay

1 Common Raven

1 Mountain Chickadee

3 Bushtit

3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

6 Western Bluebird

75 American Robin (Large wintering flock, probable underestimate)

10 House Finch

1 Lesser Goldfinch

7 Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

1 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)

19 Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

42 White-crowned Sparrow

3 Golden-crowned Sparrow

1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's Warbler)