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[stuprice68]

Just getting into my year list here in smalltown northern Japan. I`m carless so I`ve decided to concentrate on a local list only ( ie within walking distance from my house). I used to do this when I lived in Preston and got 102 one year (a long time ago).
So far I`ve just got 23 (there`s no way I`ll break 100)-these include Great Tit, Coal Tit, Herring Gull, Carrion Crow, Teal, Mallard-the same birds as Preston in fact! I should get Harlequin Duck and hopefully Glaucous Winged Gull when I go to the beach tommorrow.
Anybody else do these kind of carless non-twitching lists? Or do you think I`m a pathetic loser?!?

[IanF]

No Stu, keep it up !

I get just as much enjoyment, if not more, out of the birds that I manage to find locally as those I do on special excursions.

[Gaye Horn]

How can anyone bird and be a pathetic loser?? That is simply not possible... and so what if your list is not long.. it is worthy my friend!!!

[T0ny]

Stu,
It's so nice to find someone who doesn't pollute the countryside on their birding trips - I too am carless, though I do admit to a pedal cycle for summer use, and my local list is restricted to where I can walk to (and back from!). So far this year I'm up to about fifty - for details of one of my walks see 'Quiet Lanes and Stormy Seas' by JacobC. I always feel you see far more by travelling slowly - for instance, if I'd gone shopping by car last Saturday, I'd have missed the Waxwings in a local village.

Tony

[MikePearson]

Hi Stu,

asbolutely my kind o0f birding, careless listing is me to a tee! I have bagged getting on to a ton in the first week of the new year but i get very distracted by the subjects. I spent 2 hours just watching short eared owls patrolling there patch. Totally fascinating,

Mike

[MikePearson]

Oh and nice avatar Gaye!

Mike