Date: 11/19/25 3:56 pm From: Tim Brennan via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Did someone say underbirded counties?
Hey Tweets!
I just finally got blogging finished on wwccountybirding.blogspot.com for October<https://wwccountybirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/october-7-8-try-for-boreal-owls.html> (focus on a search for Boreal Owls in Columbia County), and November<https://wwccountybirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/november-3rd-walla-walla-finish-line.html> (a quick stop in Walla Walla County, and a little exploration along the Snake River in Columbia). I completely appreciate the year list information that Matt puts together, and especially in the questions it raises about underbirded places like Columbia. Columbia got some love this year, with some excellent birders (and me!) not only spending time in the county, but spending time in new places! Some paddling in kayaks has opened up some birding on the Tucannon River, and even out on the Snake (anyone else been to New York Island on the Columbia River?). 200 species is a pretty good year in Columbia for a county-wide total species found... this year, a birder is presently three species short of that mark! Second place (also not me!) is over a dozen species past the previous year list record.
So, for anyone interested in looking at the statistics of it, and total species found per checklist, or whatever, this year would provide a nice little outlier to play with! For people who overlap into baseball stats, I just give you the humorous question: "Yes, other birders had a higher OPS than Christopher Lindsey this year, but birding in Columbia County... Why aren't we looking at OPS+?" A good chuckle for that tiny part of the Venn diagram that is too far into both baseball and county birding. 😄
