Big Sit 2008: Final Report

The view from the tower on Big Sit day 2008.

Well we ended up the 2008 Big Sit at Indigo Hill at 69 species. That's a new record by four species (the old record was 65).

It was a fine fall day: cool early and late, but pretty warm in the middle. As always we missed a few birds that showed up the day before and the day after: house sparrow and killdeer to name two. But we didn't really have any major misses, which was nice.

Late in the day on the Big Sit.

Thanks to all the birding pals who made the scene. This is my kind of birding event.

Abrazos,

Bill of the Birds

For some reason, Blogger/Blogspot is not letting me post images. I'll come back and add them in later I guess. Sorry!

We're still hoping for that beer company sponsorship. Hey how about Newcastle?

Big Sit 2008. Post #12

Most of the 2008 Big Sit crew at Indigo Hill in the birding tower.

The sun is setting at 6:59 PM (the Blogger/Blogspot server clock is on weird time Pacific I think).

We broke the record!

Let me say that again:

WE BROKE THE RECORD!

Moments after I posted at noon, a small flock of GRACKLES flew over. Can you believe we broke then record with common grackle?



We tied the record with a red-headed woodpecker spotted by Ethan Kistler. Then the grackles. After common grackle, we got broad-winged hawk (spotted by me and ID'd by me and Jim McCormac) , then tree swallow (spotted by me and ID'd by several), and, finally (so far) scarlet tanager (spotted by Dick Esker and ID'd by me).

But we're still trying for #70....our new goal.

Thanks to all who wished us well. Hope your sit went swimmingly, too.

Big Sit 2008. Post #11

We are all tied up at noon. 65 species—tied for the record.
Many eyes make light birding.
We have 12 hours to find one more species the break the record.
No one wants to leave the tower until we do.
And I won't post here until we do.
So if you don't see another post today, save us a bit of sympathy.

BOTB