Greetings All:
This is probably only of interest to folk who are interested in the
Texas Century Club and/or obsessed with eBird. In other words: if you
aren't interested in this sort of stuff feel free to hit the delete
button.
This is the second year of, hopefully, a two year project so I am
going to hit the reset button a wee bit. Though I have seen over 100
species in all 36 Oregon and all 254 Texas counties, I am way behind
on entering my historical data into eBird and at the beginning of
January of 2019, with 221 months of data not yet entered into eBird,
had but 14 Oregon and 71 Texas counties over 100 in eBird.
During 2019 I entered almost all of my Oregon data (still had October
1996 through December 1997) but finished off my OCC game with at least
100 species in all 36 counties ... and I made serious headway with the
Texas data (still had February of 2005 through December of 2011 to
go), getting up to 130 counties with over 100 species on my eBird
list.
In January I entered six months of historical data (October 1996
through December 1996 and February 2005 through April 2005) as well as
January itself, bringing me down to 92 months of un-entered historical
data. In February I entered twelve months of historical data (January
through April of 1997 and May through December of 2005) as well as
February itself, getting down to 80 months of un-entered historical
data. In March I entered fifteen months of historical data (May 1997
through December 1997 and January 2006 through July of 2006) as well
as March itself, getting down to 65 months of un-entered historical
data. In April I entered eight months of historical data (August 2006
through March 2007) as well as April itself, getting down to 57 months
of un-entered historical data. In May I entered 10 months of
historical data (April 2007 through December 2001 and January of
2011*) as well as May itself, getting down to 47 months of un-entered
historical data. In June I entered eleven months of historical data
(January through November of 2008) as well as June itself, getting
down to 36 months of un-entered historical data. In July I entered
twelve months of historical data (December 2008 through November of
2009) as well as July itself, getting down to 24 months of un-entered
historical data. In August I entered seven months of historical data
(December 2009 through June 2010) as well as August itself, getting
down to 17 months of un-entered historical data.
In September, with classes full on, I only managed to enter five
months of historical data (July 2010 through November 2010) as well as
August, getting down to 12 months of un-entered historical data. I
also discovered that I had not entered any data from my three big
trips in 2013 (I think because I was waiting on shared lists that
never happened or that I failed to act on correctly). This was
something of a relief as I had a whole slew of counties in the eastern
half of the state that I knew I had over 100 in but that eBird showed
as deficits ... and my eBird list was three species short (species I
knew that I had seen in 2013). When everything is done, I will have
to go over my eBird checklists to look for other gaps.
I managed to add thirty-four counties - thirteen from the 2010 months
(Baylor, Bosque, Burleson, Frio, Karnes, Kenedy, La Salle, Milam,
Montague, Palo Pinto, Wichita, Wilbarger, Young) and twenty-one from
the TOS-related adventures during 2013 (Collin, Delta, Ellis, Erath,
Fort Bend, Franklin, Freestone, Harris, Henderson, HIll, Hopkins,
Hunt, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Montgomery, Navarro, Parker, Red River,
Somervell, Van Zandt, Waller) - to my eBirded TCC list, bringing me up
to 219 eBirded to TCC status.
My October efforts will depend, in various ways, upon the impact of
COVID-19 on my work schedule but I am pretty sure I will be done with
the historical data by the end of the year. Then I can work on my
duties as an eBird reviewer as, evidently, I have a lot of filters
that need adjusting:)
Anthony Hewetson; Lubbock
