[birderbf]

I finally timed it right! Top o' the page!

Come now people, fess up. Unless you want to adjust your lists so that they are only ABA countable-heard only, just tell me if you have been recording heard birds - JUST so we know that we aren't operating from the same base.

Category A:
Gold Chis Benesh 221
Silver Larry Lade 121
Bronze BEBirder 101
4th Prairiemerlin 99
5th Birderbf 96
6th Ayasuda 80
7th colejwolf 58
8th featherbrain1223 57
9th napamatt 51
10 B.C. Birder 49
11th themupilot 47
12th Storm-Petrel 39

Category B:

Gold Jane Turner 149
Silver Teamsaint 74
BronzeThe Devil Bird 42

[Jane Turner]

Originally Posted by The Devil Bird;

Well done birderbf, I am glad my idea has caught on. Just to start things off can you put me in category B and I have 29 points. Thanks.

I'll be a B too - and I have 50 on the ducks.

[Jane Turner]

2 33
3 23
4 43

Making 149

Pretty sure I saw a Streaked Shearwater of La Jolla too, but haven't included it.

[Larry Lade]

# 4 Round ....... 34

Total so far .... 121

[birderbf]

Originally Posted by Jane Turner

2 33
3 23
4 43

Making 149

Pretty sure I saw a Streaked Shearwater of La Jolla too, but haven't included it.

Ooh ah! The ever watching Jane Turner! Welcome!

[B.C. Birder]

Only 5 lol That means I'm at 49.

CL

[birderbf]

Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus 1
Cooper’s Hawk Accipiter cooperii 1
Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis 1
Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens 5
Common Black-Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus 2
Harris’s Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus 1
Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris 5
Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus 1
Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus 1
Gray Hawk Buteo nitidus 2
Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus 2
Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni 1
White-tailed Hawk Buteo albicaudatus 2
Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus 2
Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis 1
Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis 1
Rough-legged Hawk Buteo lagopus 1
Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos 1
Collared Forest-Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus 5
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway 1
Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus 4
American Kestrel Falco sparverius 1
Merlin Falco columbarius 1
Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo 4
Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus 5
Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis 4
Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus 2
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus 1
Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus 1
Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis 2
Black Rail Laterallus jamaicensis 2
Corn Crake Crex crex 5
Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris 1
King Rail Rallus elegans 1
Virginia Rail Rallus limicola 1
Sora Porzana carolina 1
Paint-billed Crake Neocrex erythrops 5
Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus 5
Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica 1
Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus 1
Eurasian Coot Fulica atra 5
American Coot Fulica americana 1
Limpkin Aramus guarauna 2
Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis 1
Common Crane Grus grus 4
Whooping Crane Grus americana 2
Double-striped Thick-knee Burhinus bistriatus 5
Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus 4
Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola 1

[birderbf]

22 that round for me (highlight being... Limpkin!).

[featherbrain1223]

1st round 25
2nd round 30
3rd round 2
4th round 30
5th round 31

[Larry Lade]

5th Round ........ 46 *(I did not count the Black Rail, as it was heard only.)

So far ............. 167

[Chris Benesh]

Hi All,

I got 106 for this round, not counting the Aplomado Falcons from south Texas, nor the Thick-knee I saw in Arizona years ago. So that makes 327 for me after five rounds.

Chris

off to teach.

[devilbirder]

Round 4= 7
Round 5= 22
I'm not that good at this.

[Larry Lade]

It not really about "how good" or "how bad" you are. It is more about how many years you have been birding and how many different places have you been!

Have fun and Good Birding!

[birderbf]

Originally Posted by Chris Benesh

Hi All,

I got 106 for this round, not counting the Aplomado Falcons from south Texas, nor the Thick-knee I saw in Arizona years ago. So that makes 327 for me after five rounds.

Chris

off to teach.

I know the Aplomado Falcons are being reintroduced (so are eastern Peregrines), but what ws wrong with the Thick-knee?

Wait I counted that up round up... there's only 111 points up for grabs. So if you aren't counting a 5 and a 4... hmmm. Still it sounds like you ACED a round!

[prairiemerlin]

33 for me, so I'm at 132 total. Highlights for this round are Gyrfalcon and Black Rail. Black Rail was heard only, but I count em - if you get a good "listen" and are positive what it was, I see no reason why not to count it.

Neil G.

[featherbrain1223]

I too have seen Aplamados in southern Texas, Benton Basham said to count them, but for some reason I forgot to add that to my total. I'm not sure if I should add it to my total if Chris isn't....

[B.C. Birder]

I now have a total of 63.

BC

[Storm-Petrel]

28 for part 4...

[Storm-Petrel]

26 for pt 5, black rail being my highlight!

[Jane Turner]

58 for me on that section.

[B.C. Birder]

Could you add one point to my score for a American White Pelican bf?

BC

[ayasuda]

Round 5 = 25 points

Total = 105

[birderbf]

Originally Posted by prairiemerlin

33 for me, so I'm at 132 total. Highlights for this round are Gyrfalcon and Black Rail. Black Rail was heard only, but I count em - if you get a good "listen" and are positive what it was, I see no reason why not to count it.

Neil G.

Counting is very useful for scouting out areas to bird and breeding bird atlasses, but for adding it to your life list you get an H. Hey I was yards away from a Spindalis. I saw someone probably looking at it. What if I heard it flapping it's little wings? Still isn't seeing the bird...

Anyway I'm watching this thread like a hawk waiting to pounce on the next page for a new scoreboard...

[prairiemerlin]

Yes, but pretty much all bird wing flaps sound alike. For several minutes on end we heard kee-kee-der coming from a salt marsh in NJ... now don't go saying that wasn't a Black Rail...

Neil G.

[birderbf]

Definitely not saying that Neil!


Now onto the scoreboard...