Year End Report

[JAMES SPEICHER]

Tho likely cementing my credentials as a pathetic birder, nevertheless my eBird statistics are:

135 species overall with some certainly suspect.  The total at least surpasses my previous yearly high of 130 from Oklahoma in 1978 where there were also some dubious entries among the total.

Species count - high month - May, 86 species

Species count - low month - Feb, 28 species

All months except Feb & March had species totals in excess of 50.

Out of area birding accounted for only 13 of the 135:

https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1849468 [ 7 of 135 on 4 January 2022 ]
Landis Valley Pond and Trail
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
US
Combined with a trip to retrieve a pottery item on loan to the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum's American Redware Exhibit

https://ebird.org/hotspot/L2409388 [ 3 of 135 on 20 October 2022 ]
Flight 93 National Memorial
Somerset County
Pennsylvania
US
https://ebird.org/checklist/S121931838 [ Bohemian Waxwing; lifer - suspect with as yet no inquiry by eBird monitors regarding ]
A trip taken a half-dozen times since the Memorial was under development [ last visit was 2020 ]

https://ebird.org/hotspot/L8817680 [ 3 of 135 on 18 November 2022 ]
Broadway Wastewater Treatment Plant (restricted access)
Rockingham County
Virginia
US
https://ebird.org/checklist/S122630151 [ Eared Grebe; lifer ]
Combined with a trip to the Jeff Evans & Associates auction facility in Mt Crawford, VA

Jim Speicher
Broad Run/Burkittsville area
S FREDCO
Member WASHCO MOS Chapter
C&O (mid-winter) Count Co-Coordinator
Lock 34 NestStory Bald eagle monitor

[JAMES SPEICHER]

To flesh this out further...

Total checklists = 579

10 lifers among the 135 species

Species recorded in only a single checklist = 26

Top 10 by checklist appearance

N Cardinal = 165

Carolina Wren = 157

Turkey Vulture = 109

Mourning Dove = 106

The for 5th place

Starling & *RBWO = 99

Tie for 7th place

Blue Jay & Robin = 97

N Mockingbird = 88

Carolina Chickadee = 80

Jim S 

*Red-bellied woodpecker