Home and garden calendar

Saturday

The Wachiska Audubon Society will hold its Lincoln Christmas Bird Count starting around daybreak. Field and feeder counters are welcome. Counters will be notified if bad weather cancels the bird count. Call Linda Brown, 402-489-2381, for information and to be assigned to an area. After the bird count, Bruce Mellberg and April Stevenson will hold a potluck supper at their home. Go to www.wachiskaaudubon.org for more information.

The Greater Omaha Audubon Society also has chosen Saturday for its bird count. Contact Betty Grenon for details at 731-2383 or grenon925@aol.com.

This is the 110th year for the national bird census from Alaska to Antarctica. Counts are often multigenerational family or community traditions. New participants join an established group that has at least one experienced bird-watcher. Volunteers follow specified routes through a designated 15-mile-diameter circle or can arrange to count birds at home feeders in the circle and submit results to a designated compiler.

Christmas bird counts are done between Dec. 14 and Jan. 5 on a single calendar day. The bird census tracks migratory patterns and other data.

At the RailsWest Railroad Museum in Council Bluffs, learn all about creating a train layout under your tree. A train talk, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., will be presented by the Greater Omaha Society of Model Engineers. The group will also run the Hogwarts Express and Thomas the Tank Engine on an extensive, permanent HO-scale layout at the Rock Island Depot, also at the museum.

Admission is $3 for nonmembers of the museum, 16th Avenue and South Main Street. Winter hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

The museum will be closed Dec. 21 through Jan. 7. Information: www.thehistoricalsociety.org or 323-5182.

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