How much to watch?

Watch your feeders for as long as you can during your count days. However, you don’t need to get up early or watch continuously. Some people can only watch before and/or after work, for example. If you cannot count during both of your count days, try to count as long as possible on your one available day.

Be sure to keep track of how much time you spend observing your count site. For example, if you are in the kitchen working for an hour, and you can see the feeders out your kitchen window, you would only record the portion of that hour when you were actually looking at the feeders.