Got another new one today. Lise and I drove about 40 minutes over to Nashville Michigan, in Barry County, to get a varied thrush. For some reason this bird decided to be about 1,000 miles east of where it would normally be.
The bird was coming to someone’s feeder. I don’t think this nice gentleman knew what he was agreeing to when he said it was OK for people to come by. We got there early afternoon and a couple guys from Grand Rapids were already waiting. While we were there someone else showed up and blocked the driveway. Barb went later and people from Ohio were there.
We were waiting in cars for the bird to show up. Lise saw it first directly over the car with the guys from Grand Rapids. Ever the nice person she jumped out of the car with her arms waving to tell them it was directly over their car. Before I, or the gentlemen from Grand Rapids, could see it, the bird flew off. All’s well that ends well though. About 30 really quiet minutes later it came back and I got a good look.
I’m now at 325, Lise is at 307 and our combined count is 326. I’m neck and neck with old man time. I’m at 92.86% of the goal and there is 92.90% of the year gone. So with standard rounding allowed by any reasonable person, we’re tied. That would not go over too well in a league swim meet but we don’t have fanatical parents watching us here.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 