Ok! so you've got your life list, county list, year list, site list, holiday list etc. How many people keep a finds list? - that is species they have gone out, found and identified themselves, not twitched or had shown to them.
It is great fun to do and can throw up a few surprises. For instance I have seen 22 Richard's Pipits in Britain but never found one. Conversely I've only seen 12 Tawny Pipits but have found 4.
Looking at my list today I see that I've never found a Honey Buzzard - that's all the incentive I need to get out there next month and scan the skies.
My finds list for Britain is 256 - which I'm quite happy with. It does include a few "forms" ie Pale-bellied Brent, Scandinavian Lesser Black-backed gull - but hey, it's my list right?
Have a go - it's addictive
Darrell
Hi Darrell
I have to be honest and say that I not entirely sure what you mean by this. I keep a life list, a year list and a list of what I see every time I go out birding. As its just Jan and myself, its just us two who ID every bird on that 'daily' list. If we aren't sure what it is, it dunna get put in.
But as you say, its your list and your method. There's enough of us to go round with with what ever lists we want to keep. I remember reading in oneof the birduing mags about people who keep lists of birds they see on telly to ... in several different forms, like wild-life programs, westerns, adventure films ... and it can get just a wee bit silly IMHO.
Ah well ... back to doing what I do best I supoose ... now where's that bottle of Old Hen ... ... ... ... ... ...
Ron
I keep a finds list as well, Its a far better list than one which includes the titched birds, I alwasy have a problem though, If you know a bird will be at a site, does it count as a find, for example, if you were to go to Titchwell and see bearded tit, is it a find or not? I know they are there but have to find them myself! My list is not yet at the 250 mark but its getting up there, another few years like last two years (Subalpine, Probable pechora and Ortolan, last year and Waxwing this) and I'll be well away.