Thank you to all who participated in the BIG JANUARY event for COA. Remember: If you use eBird to submit all of your observations, there is no need to supply them directly to us unless you want to manually report your count for a single city/town. Our Big January team will pull the data from eBird. Please email coa-info@googlegroups.com to let us know if you are in one of the youth categories. If you do not use eBird, please keep a record of where and when you first observed each species throughout the month and forward the total results to our team at coa-info@googlegroups.com. Please note, the deadline for manual reports is February 2, 2026. We are now listing eBird's top 100 in the State and each County on the COA website at https://www.ctbirding.org/events/big-january/. All those who reached 100 species or more will be emailed a commemorative certificate. The individuals with the highest count in the state, per county and in one location will also win a prize. Congratulations to all who got out and contributed to this documentation of winter bird life in Connecticut. Good Birding! Cynthia S Ehlinger President, Connecticut Ornithological Association Riverside