A lot of people use eBird online to track their sightings. eBird also serves as a global database of bird population data, so it seems like a pretty good idea. I record my birds there, usually getting something in the neighborhood of 400 species a year. There is a feature in eBird to rank your number of sightings against everyone else’s to see how you’re doing. In 2010, I recorded 397 birds which almost got me into the top 100 for the entire U.S. I finished at number 106. It seems more and more birders are recording their sightings in eBird though. Last year I recorded a record number of sightings for me, 407. That was only good enough for 190th in the country. I’m falling fast. This year, so far, I’m in 453rd place. I’d better step up my game…
Along the way
Coyote tracks
It’s about the same size as a bobcat track, but the claws show. Greater White-fronted Geese
Sandhill Cranes
Gourds
It’s about the same size as a bobcat track, but the claws show. Greater White-fronted Geese Sandhill Cranes Gourds November 1st
Our ninth anniversary of leaving our house in Louisville and living our life on the road. Packed up and ready to go, we slept in the motorhome the night before. The next morning we stood outside the fence, looked back at the house, and gave the sadness a few moments to pass. Nothing happened. The sadness wasn’t there. It never came or went. We were already looking ahead, not back. With no regrets, we fired up the rig and headed off on our adventure. It’s nice to have a home base now in South Texas, but we still consider our lives to be fluid. We can float with the seasons (or the mood).
CPE
Continuing Professional Education. As Certified Public Accountants, we have an obligation to complete at least 80 hours of CPE over the course of every two year reporting period. 40 hours per year; that’s not much to ask. A little over 3 hours per month. Less than an hour per week. The current two year reporting period ends December 31, 2013. All over the country, CPAs are counting the days remaining in the year and comparing that to how many hours of CPE they have to complete each day or week between now and the end of the year to be in compliance with the CPE requirement. Some of us are even studying on Saturdays…
Evening light
After the storm.