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 the year had but 12 Oregon and 66 Texas
Counties over 100 in eBird. With this in mind and with various Texas
eBird reviewers breathing down my neck, I decided to make one of my
2019 games a concerted effort to get the data in. With 214 months
worth of un-entered data (January-April of 1992, July 1992 through
December of 1997, and January of 2000 through December of 2011) I
really have 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 that sort
of pace.
I entered eight months of data (January, February, March, and April of
1992 - January, February, and March of 2000 - and, of course, January
of 2019 - keeping up with current events as well) during January,
leaving me at 2017 months of in-entered data, and moved one Oregon
County over the eBird century mark (Klamath) and five Texas Counties
over the eBird century mark (Galveston, Liberty, McLennan, San
Jacinto, Uvalde).
February will see me through (I hope) three more months of 1992, three
more months of 2000, and one more month of 2019 and it is actually
kind of fun to revisit my birding days of old and get a better handle
on how I actually went about 'getting' counties in the old days.
Anthony Hewetson; Lubbock