Enter your 2010 BIGBY counts at Surfbirds

Surfbirds now has a page where you can enter your 2010 BIGBY totals and highlights. You can update them as the year progresses:

http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/surfbirds/display.cgi?list=list404&lowVal=0&highVal=49

Note that they call it "2010 N. American Local Patch Year List" rather than "2010 N. American BIGBY Year List". I believe the BIGBY web site uses the term "local patch" occasionally.

As of today's date, the page only has three entries, so I encourage everyone to enter their 2010 BIGBY data, and keep it updated.

New green birding category - incidental birding

I've come up with an idea for a new BIGBY/green birding category: incidental birding.

Basically, it's keeping a list of birds seen while traveling for non-birding purposes. Say you are going to visit family on a holiday, or are required to travel somewhere for business, etc.

Once you get to your destination, you can only count birds according to the usual BIGBY rules, but it's OK to plan the trip itself so that your route takes you past birding areas along the way.

For those of you unfamiliar with BIGBYing and green birding, here's some info:

http://tinyurl.com/yf7bcqu