[Wye Knots] Re: Here's new idea for competitive birders.

[Penn Gwynne <>]

Hey Gray Ham and Unca Tones (aka Neddy)

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Hi JAG,

 

The "Big Sit" is really a yankee idea that hasn't caught on here ... you have to stay within a circle with (I think a 9ft radius?) - you can leave it if you spot a bird and want to get a closer ID but cannot count anything not seen from outside the circle.

 

I did one a couple of years back as a category on the Bird Race day we have in May ... sat on Northweard Hill in Kent and clocked up 78 species ... and it was a windy day that kept marsh passerines down in the reeds so we never saw one or two very common birds. Great raptors, owls (we started an hour before dawn) and etc.

 

In the US they have an Autumn one as well as Spring. In the UK last year only one team took part. I might just put a team together this year.

 

Bo

Graham <>wrote:

Gidday Birders,

Tony sets the challenge, but I'm just checking the rules. Do you have to see the bird?? Is a call good enough? I hope so, then I can keep both eyes rested for when anything good turns up.

And I thought 33 sp for a half hour walk this morning was good ......

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