Perhaps I can be forgiven for the typo on Mayo River CBC for White-tailed sparrow, thats hilarious, oh well one out of a thousand in mad typing computer crunch days, I'm really more comfortable outside but that involves shoveling snow at the moment.
This CBC season I participated in 18 CBCs bringing my lifetime total up to 298! I really tried to squeeze in a few more, but the weekends get crowded with 'em all and I wont' schedule any of mine on holidays, so 18 in 23 days was literally all I could do. I've averaged 11 counts each season over the last 27 years, yes Paul Sykes is my hero and I'm gunning for him haha, not really just love intense intentional birding.
125 season, 18 counts, 169 species 124 season 19 counts, 164 species 123 season 20 counts, 166 species
Already have 19 counts on the calendar for next year, maybe I could do half days and do two counts on a weekend or something haha. It looks like New Bern will be my 300th CBC the way the calendar lined up. I know Paul Sykes told me that he made sure to schedule his 500th to be his local and favorite count in VA. I suppose I could do that with Falls Lake that i started 27 years ago and have done every year, but woah that is a couple decades away.
Tallied butterflies on three counts, of two species, Cloudless Sulphur and Common Buckeye
Rest of non bird list includes several close encounters on foot or kayak: beaver, otter, nutria, muskrat, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, deer, coyote, red fox, gray fox, opossum, racoon, skunk, woodchuck, eastern cottontail, dolphin, humpback whale, sharptail mola.
Met some new birding friends, talked about lost birding friends, (I still mimic john fussels rail rallying call), saw some amazing sunrises and sunsets, Birding is a wonderful hobby obsession.
