Re: [Maine-birds] Re: Hancock County Big Year!

On the Big Year theme I'd add that York County Audubon has just begun its fifth "Quest for 300," a collective effort to find 300 species in the county. It's a just-for-fun goal tracked through eBird, this list, and the grapevine. The 2015 list currently stands at 82. We've made it to 300 once so far:

2015:  82
2014: 284
2013: 278
2012: 301
2011: 295

For those listing fanatics ready and willing to "up their game," I've wondered about a town-by-town challenge, not unlike the "county ticks" displayed by eBird. York County has 29 cities and towns*, most of which get little coverage by birders. Imagine the challenge of totaling all species found in all of them! Would that be a Quest for 3000? 5000? Instead of making the umpteenth trip to Biddeford Pool in hope of finding one rarity, a birder could take a jaunt to the interior and log 50 "new ones" in Limington.

Scott Richardson

* They are: Acton, Alfred, Arundel, Berwick, Biddeford, Buxton, Cornish, Dayton, Eliot, Hollis, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Kittery, Lebanon, Limerick, Limington, Lyman, Newfield, North Berwick, Ogunquit, Old Orchard Beach, Parsonsfield, Saco, Sanford, Shapleigh, South Berwick, Waterboro, Wells, York

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