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.
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 had but 14 Oregon and 71 Texas
counties over 100 in eBird. With this in mind and with various Texas
eBird reviewers breathing down my neck, one of my ongoing 2019 games
is a concerted effort to get the data in. With 221 months worth of
un-entered data at the beginning of the year (January-April of 1992,
July 1992 through December of 1997, and January of 2000 through
December of 2011) I really had my work cut out for me and, considering
that I still work full-time, decided to set myself a pace of six
months data entered per month - making this a three year project
assuming I can keep up that sort of pace.
I entered seven months in January, as well as January itself, getting
me down to 214 months of un-entered eBird data. I entered eighteen
months in February, as well as February itself, getting me down to 196
months of un-entered eBird data I entered thirteen months in March, as
well as March itself, getting me down to 182 months of un-entered
eBird data, and I entered ten months in April, as well as April
itself, getting me down to 172 months of un-entered eBird data as I
hit May.
I entered ten months of data during May (October of 1993 through
February of 1994 and December of 2001 through April of 2002), as well
as May itself, getting me down to 162 months of un-entered data as I
hit June.
These were productive periods for both Oregon and Texas. I added five
Oregon counties to my eBirded OCC list (Jackson, Polk, Umatilla,
Washington, and Yamhill) and fifteen Texas counties to my eBirded TCC
list (Bexar, Coleman, Comal, Gillespie, Hardin, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble,
Llano, Mason, Medina, Menard, Nolan, Runnels, and Wilson). This
brought me up to 25 out of 36 Oregon Counties dealt with and,
drum-roll please, 101 out of 254 Texas Counties dealt with - from an
eBird perspective.
June is going to be a real struggle as I have multiple Breeding Bird
Surveys to deal with and an Alaska trip to bird and booze my way
through - it will be a real challenge to get six months entered and,
looking ahead, spring of 1994 (fieldwork in Washington) and summer of
2002 (carless in Texas) do not look to be good periods for adding
counties to either state but, who knows, I may hit a period of
little/no sleep and crank through more months than I expect.
Anthony Hewetson; Lubbock
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