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Title: Local birder seeks to see 650 species in 2010 Post by: Donna on 10-Jan-10, 08:05:25 AM The first bird of the first day of the Big Year was a song sparrow. It would have been a Canada goose, but Bob Ake, bless his heart, knew I wanted to be there when he got his first bird, so he ignored that goose honking outside his house before I arrived at 7 a.m. on New Year's Day. Most of Ake's friends had expected him to start birding at midnight, listening for owls in the treetops, but he planned to take it easy on the first day of the Big Year, birding only dawn to sunset. This week, he's in Texas looking for birds. In the next few weeks, he'll pick up Southern California and Arizona. He'll go twice this year to Alaska and take several offshore trips into the Pacific. He's aiming to see 650 species of birds in 2010, more than he's ever seen before in a single year. Birders call such an effort a Big Year, and it doesn't happen by accident. Most people spend months getting organized. Ake has been preparing for this all his life. To track his progress, here's his blog:http://bobsbirds.blogspot.com/ (http://bobsbirds.blogspot.com/) Title: Re: Local birder seeks to see 650 species in 2010 Post by: Bird Crazy on 10-Jan-10, 12:06:38 PM Now that is cool I will have to follow his blog. (if I don't lose the bookmark)
anybody else with Firefox lose bookmarks? I do but don't know why. :confused: Title: Re: Local birder seeks to see 650 species in 2010 Post by: Dumpsterkitty on 10-Jan-10, 12:13:02 PM Now that is cool I will have to follow his blog. (if I don't lose the bookmark) anybody else with Firefox lose bookmarks? I do but don't know why. :confused: I haven't actually lost any bookmarks, but I have misplaced them. I think it's that re-organizing them is easier than IE. I accidentally moved my interesting blogs folder once. When I couldn't find it I started a new one. I just ran across it the other day and found a heap of bookmarks I thought I'd lost. Title: Re: Local birder seeks to see 650 species in 2010 Post by: Tokira on 10-Jan-10, 08:25:17 PM Now that is cool I will have to follow his blog. (if I don't lose the bookmark) anybody else with Firefox lose bookmarks? I do but don't know why. :confused: I have, a couple of times. Just poof, they're gone. I suspect that it's been when I've used an older version of Firefox. But I STILL like Firefox better than any other browser I've used :-) Carol WV Title: Re: Local birder seeks to see 650 species in 2010 Post by: Bird Crazy on 10-Jan-10, 08:58:37 PM that is probably it, we have the old version because we surf with a dinosaur and for some reason it can't take a faster version.
Title: Re: Local birder seeks to see 650 species in 2010 Post by: Tokira on 10-Jan-10, 10:03:29 PM that is probably it, we have the old version because we surf with a dinosaur and for some reason it can't take a faster version. I did manage to get a link to Firefox 2.0.0.20, and am hoping that that's enough of an upgrade to keep going for a while. My silly Son (my Tech Support) keeps telling me that my nine-year old G4 Cube meeds to be replaced. :scaredblue: Ha, just because HE gets a new Powerbook every other year. :drool: Carol WV |