diff --git a/doc/script-reference/types.rst b/doc/script-reference/types.rst
index 3d6f74aef0..fe77ece90c 100644
--- a/doc/script-reference/types.rst
+++ b/doc/script-reference/types.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ Here is a more detailed description of each type:
     type, but a unary plus or minus applied to a "count" results in an
     "int".
 
+    In addition, "count" types support bitwise operations.  You can use
+    ``&``, ``|``, and ``^`` for bitwise ``and'', ``or'', and ``xor''.  You
+    can also use ``~`` for bitwise (one's) complement.
+
 .. bro:type:: double
 
     A numeric type representing a double-precision floating-point
@@ -592,6 +596,9 @@ Here is a more detailed description of each type:
     The resulting vector of bool is the logical "and" (or logical "or") of
     each element of the operand vectors.
 
+    Vectors of type ``count`` can also be operands for the bitwise and/or/xor
+    operators, ``&``, ``|`` and ``^``.
+
     See the :bro:keyword:`for` statement for info on how to iterate over
     the elements in a vector.