FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Birding with Paul Lehman

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

May 2, 2005
TN-MS-AR
 
I spent the weekend with Paul Lehman, Mike Todd, Kenny and LaDonna Nichols  
working on Paul's state lists. As most of you know, Paul works on the  
distribution maps for most of the bird field guides we all use in the today. 
You  
learned a lot just following him around, about where the birds are and are  
not, 
this weekend was a treat and education for us. Paul holds the record  for the 
top ticker list or the total checks on all the field check lists of the  50 
states, some where around 16,000 now, I think.
 
This Saturday afternoon, Paul reached another mile  stone, having attained 
the ABA threshold in all 50 states with a  Black-bellied Plover in Raft Creek 
Bottoms Management Area in White Co,  Arkansas. We had to try real hard so the 
record bird was not a Eurasian-Collared  Dove or House Finch, which we knocked 
off in Bald Knob shortly before;o)
 
Our total for the long weekend before Mike and I had to peel off Sunday  
afternoon was 185 species with some real surprises. Kenny and LaDonna continued 
 
on and added Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Bachman's Sparrow to Paul's ever  
growing list.
 
Kenny and Mike might have some details to add. We had lots of  great looks at 
a lot of exciting birds, including a late Surf Scoter at the Bald  Knob 
treatment lagoons. Paul is now in Oklahoma and goes back to MO before  heading 
home 
and then in a week is off leading field trips again.
 
Good  Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett,  TN


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