Brandi Sikorski

Brandi turned a casual birding interest into a passion in 2022 by volunteering for a citizen science program to track migratory, breeding, and wintering birds. Today, as a volunteer for CCF, she inventories birds at our various properties.

During the summer of 2023, the New York Times and The Cornell Lab of Ornithology put out a call to birders to participate in a community science program to submit bird surveys in off the beaten path places to gain a better understanding of not just where the birds are at local hotspots, but where they aren’t which is just as important to know.  Birds are a harbinger or telltale of the health of our environment (air, water, and soil quality). 

After owning a home here for 25 years, Brandi pulled out a map of Chatham and started going to places every day that she had never been to, in search of birds. “During my daily quest to find and log birds, I kept noticing all the beautiful properties owned by the Chatham Conservation Foundation.  This got me thinking about all the potential opportunities to understand how the CCF efforts are preserving vital birding habitats from development.”