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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Chapman" data-source="post: 3921522" data-attributes="member: 69491">DanielIt seems pretty clear that this thread and indeed the contributions on it from those with some first hand experience of this effort (yours & those from Gomphus, knotsbirder & Paul) were well intended to provide Mark with some recognition for what appears to have been an extraordinary effort.But it cannot be a surprise when you and others have done that (and indeed particularly as the number is twenty higher than the previous highest mark passing a landmark barrier - 400) that people will ask the most basic of questions ie what was the geographic area (Britain), what was the listing authority (UK400) and what did he see.Anything that he reveals is of course a matter for him but he must have kept a simple list so it is not as a result a significant effort to reproduce it.I yearlisted once rather half heartedly in 1994. It was a quarter of a century ago and it would take me an hour to produce the list. That said it was 70 short of this effort!Indeed, I remember some contributors on here who made landmark yearlisting efforts in the mid-80s and I suspect that they could find their lists.All the best</blockquote>