Greetings All:
This is probably only of interest to folk who are interested in the
Texas Century Club and/or obsessed with eBird. In other words: if you
aren't interested in this sort of stuff feel free to hit the delete
button.
Though I have seen over 100 species in all 36 Oregon and all 254 Texas
counties, I am way behind on entering my historical data into eBird
and at the beginning of January of 2019 had but 14 Oregon and 71 Texas
counties over 100 in eBird. With this in mind and with various Texas
eBird reviewers breathing down my neck, one of my ongoing 2019 games
is a concerted effort to get the data in. With 221 months worth of
un-entered data at the beginning of the year (January-April of 1992,
July 1992 through December of 1997, and January of 2000 through
December of 2011) I really had my work cut out for me and, considering
that I still work full-time, decided to set myself a pace of six
months data entered per month - making this a three year project
assuming I can keep up that sort of pace.
I entered seven months in January, as well as January itself, getting
me down to 214 months of un-entered eBird data. I entered eighteen
months in February, as well as February itself, getting me down to 196
months of un-entered eBird data I entered thirteen months in March, as
well as March itself, getting me down to 182 months of un-entered
eBird data, I entered ten months in April, as well as April itself,
getting me down to 172 months of un-entered eBird data as I hit May, I
entered ten months of data during May (October of 1993 through
February of 1994 and December of 2001 through April of 2002), as well
as May itself, getting me down to 162 months of un-entered data as I
hit June, I entered six months in June (March through May of 1994 and
May through July of 2002), as well as June itself, getting down to 156
months of in-entered eBird data, and I entered twelve months in July
(June through December of 1994 and August through December of 2002) as
well as July itself, getting down to 144 months left of in-entered
eBird data.
I did as well as I could in August (given that classes ramp up during
the month), entering seven months of data (January 1995 through April
1995 and January 2003 through March of 2003) as well as August itself,
getting down to 137 months of in-entered eBird data.
I spent all of the 1995 months in Oregon but added only one county
(Douglas) to my eBirded OCC list, getting up to 29 out of 36 Oregon
Counties. I got in a good bit of Texas birding during the 2003 months
and had a nice trip to the Panhandle at the end of the month, adding
six counties (Gray, Grimes, Limestone, Ochiltree, Trinity, and Walker)
to my eBirded TCC list, hitting 112 out of 254 Texas Counties.
September will be interesting, with my classes hitting full stride but
I hope to get, somehow, three months of old Oregon and three months of
old Texas data in. The only thing I am sure of is that I will add two
counties my eBirded TCC list as I got them in on 9/1/2019!
Two, four, six, eight
It is data, even late!
eBird!
Anthony Hewetson; Lubbock