The Bluebird Shed has coordinated two backyard bird counts recently, and I would like to do more in the near future. But this begs the question about why should we count our backyard birds at all? It turns out that, even after all of our modern technology, birds are still the proverbial canary in the coal mine with respect to our environment. Sure there are other animals out there that are more sensitive to environmental degradation such as many frogs and salamanders, but bi