Lise is down in West Lafayette. On her way there she stopped by to visit our friend Fred who is recuperating from a recent operation. She got sandhill crane and Cooper’s hawk while visiting Fred, and Carolina wren while down in West Lafayette. That ties us at 66 species each, but we have different species. Now I have to figure out logic functions in Excel so I can get a combined list for us.
I was glancing through Mark Obmascik’s “The Big Year”, from whence came the movie from whence came our biggish year. Just to put our numbers in perspective, Al Levantin was at 245 species by January 19. That is about a new species every two hours. By our species-a-day metric we are at March 6. Or at about 1.7 birds a day or about 0.041 birds per hour. My calculator doesn’t do birds per light year.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 