Oh yeah - I'm barring photobucket (those links below) in favour of flickr.com - just seems that you can do more, and with less restrictions at flickr.
the address to go to is...
http://flickr.com/photos/14457656@N08/sets/72157602224364249/
Monday, December 31, 2007
So long 2007
Ok, end of 2007 - aimed to get to 400 for life, and fell short. Also aimed to see 200 for the year, which I made.
The tally for 2007 was:
Life list as at 31/12/07
374
Year list for 2007
270
so not a bad effort. Not great, but not bad.
Targets for 2008 - life list 450+, and year list of 400. That will also have the effect of sanitising my list by seeing most of the birds I saw up north in the early 90's, when I had more hair and was arguably better looking. I also didn't have binoculars or really know how to birdwatch, which is something I'm still learning to do.
2008 also sees me moving out of erko at some stage, so I suppose I should change the name of the blog, but that might confuse the thousands of visitors I don't have coming here.
hehe
Happy 2008
The tally for 2007 was:
Life list as at 31/12/07
374
Year list for 2007
270
so not a bad effort. Not great, but not bad.
Targets for 2008 - life list 450+, and year list of 400. That will also have the effect of sanitising my list by seeing most of the birds I saw up north in the early 90's, when I had more hair and was arguably better looking. I also didn't have binoculars or really know how to birdwatch, which is something I'm still learning to do.
2008 also sees me moving out of erko at some stage, so I suppose I should change the name of the blog, but that might confuse the thousands of visitors I don't have coming here.
hehe
Happy 2008
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Almost there
Almost at the end of the year... I'm at 374 birds for the life list, although re-analysing the actual species in my list against Clements sees me losing a couple. I guess I'll have to wait until the new Aus checklist comes out January-ish to get a definitive number there. Am on holidays at the moment and have been getting out and about quite a bit, despite the shockingly shithouse weather. Was up at the Capertee Valley for a couple of days earlier in the week, and am off down the coast for Waderfest 2007 - although the weather looks to be even worse than what we've been having, with the potential that the spit to Comerong Island may be closed due to increased flows of the Shoalhaven river, which will make the trip more Scrabblefest than Waderfest. Anyway - got a couple of days/nights there, so we'll see.
Anyhoot - I will post in about 2 weeks time so that the whole none of you who are reading this blog can see how I fared in the previous years twitching action. Next year will be bigger, as I'm going to drive to Cairns in November/December, and I would expect that I'm aiming for 100 new birds in that trip alone. So - all things going to plan - I'll be at around 500 birds for life come xmas next year, and i'll be at around 380ish by the end of this year.
Merry Merry and all that.
Anyhoot - I will post in about 2 weeks time so that the whole none of you who are reading this blog can see how I fared in the previous years twitching action. Next year will be bigger, as I'm going to drive to Cairns in November/December, and I would expect that I'm aiming for 100 new birds in that trip alone. So - all things going to plan - I'll be at around 500 birds for life come xmas next year, and i'll be at around 380ish by the end of this year.
Merry Merry and all that.
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