Fellow bird counters, Linda Helm and I each managed to see 446 birds in 2009. Not a bad year, with trips to Minnesota in winter, San Diego , Joshua tree and Phoenix in March, the Florida panhandle in April, Minnesota and North Dakota in June, SE Arizona in August and all over Ohio in between. We got about a dozen life birds. Note that you get to see a lot of nice country when you chase birds. Would love to hear other reports. joe in the woods Somerset, Ohio Perry County ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]