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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helenelizabeth2" data-source="post: 1430364" data-attributes="member: 36938">That fits me.  I've been birding for 3 and a half years and my list is at 267 (I think - I just added it up quickly for the purpose of this thread).  Mind you, I have done a bit of twitching though that's been limited by work and family.  And I only added a couple of lifers last year and 1 so far this year.  So the bulk of my list was accrued in my second full year of birding when I got a year list of 247, mainly by including trips to Scotland, Wales and Cornwall and a handful of twitches.   In common with most of those who've commented, I don't think that numbers matter at all.  They just tell you how much time someone has had available and how able or prepared to travel they've been.   One tip I would give to the threadstarter is to join a group or get out and about with other birders.  Identifying things like Gulls can be made much easier by a bit of help from others at the beginning.  You can learn a lot from other people that you can't necessarily get out of a book.</blockquote>