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.
This is the second year of, hopefully, a two year project so I am
going to hit the reset button a wee bit. 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, with 221 months of data not yet entered into eBird,
had but 14 Oregon and 71 Texas counties over 100 in eBird. During
2019 I entered almost all of my Oregon data (still had October 1996
through December 1997) but finished off my OCC game with at least 100
species in all 36 counties ... and I made serious headway with the
Texas data (still had February of 2005 through December of 2011 to
go), getting up to 130 counties with over 100 species on my eBird
list.
In January I entered six months of historical data (October 1996
through December 1996 and February 2005 through April 2005) as well as
January itself, bringing me down to 92 months of un-entered historical
data. Thanks to a protracted illness, I got more done in February
than anticipated (I couldn't bird but I could type), entering twelve
months of historical data (January through April of 1997 and May
through December of 2005) as well as February itself, getting down to
80 months of un-entered historical data.
This didn't pay off as much as hoped and I only added three counties
(Cooke, Coryell, and McMullen), bringing me up to 137 out of 254 Texas
counties eBirded to over TCC status.
March progress will depend on a lot of things but it is looking more
and more like I will be able to get this humongous task done this
year.
Anthony Hewetson; Lubbock