Mysticete
Well-known member
Looks like someone is making a serious attempt to overthrow Neil Hayward's record from a few years ago and nab +750 birds for Canada and the continental US
As of January 14th, he is already at 314 (including 16 code 3 and above birds), and so far seems not have spent much more than 2 days in any one spot, nabbing practically all the vital code 3-5 birds hanging around North America right now (Still missing Barnacle and Pink-footed Goose, but presumably he can pick them up in the fall if he misses them by spring).
To put that in perspective, in the first half of his first month he has hit up St. Louis, Northern Minnesota, British Columbia, South Texas, South Florida, and southern Arizona, and appears to have only dipped Golden-crowned Warbler of all the birds he has twitched. He at least seems to be surpassing the rarity rate that Neil Hayward and John Vanderpoel from this part of the year, although the focus on rare birds is making the list a bit random (he didn't clock Canada Goose until his 12th day!)
He has a blog as follows but uh...NSFW, since their are adds for books he has written along the side of the blog, which seem to involve a lot of naked women.
http://olafsbigyear.blogspot.com/
As of January 14th, he is already at 314 (including 16 code 3 and above birds), and so far seems not have spent much more than 2 days in any one spot, nabbing practically all the vital code 3-5 birds hanging around North America right now (Still missing Barnacle and Pink-footed Goose, but presumably he can pick them up in the fall if he misses them by spring).
To put that in perspective, in the first half of his first month he has hit up St. Louis, Northern Minnesota, British Columbia, South Texas, South Florida, and southern Arizona, and appears to have only dipped Golden-crowned Warbler of all the birds he has twitched. He at least seems to be surpassing the rarity rate that Neil Hayward and John Vanderpoel from this part of the year, although the focus on rare birds is making the list a bit random (he didn't clock Canada Goose until his 12th day!)
He has a blog as follows but uh...NSFW, since their are adds for books he has written along the side of the blog, which seem to involve a lot of naked women.
http://olafsbigyear.blogspot.com/
