Well now I’m up three species on Lise. Yesterday I had a Cooper’s hawk fly over me while driving through Williamston. Now I have a Northern harrier, ring-necked pheasant, and a Cooper’s hawk that she does not. She will get the two hawks but maybe not the pheasant. You need to be in the right place at the right time for them. We usually miss on both counts.
We really are not having a competition between us. We started the year doing most of the birding together. Circumstances of our schedule will be forcing us to do some birding separately so our lists will diverge. Most of the trips we have planned this year will be together so I doubt our final lists will not be very different. Either of us could be up by a couple species by the end of the year.
This Sunday Molly has a volleyball tournament in beautiful Flint, Michigan, and on Saturday a violin recital locally. We may get out a little before the recital but chances of anything spectacular are unlikely. There are a number of reports of merlins, white-winged crossbills, and snow buntings to the Southeast but not too much for this immediate area.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 