05/07/2013 - Sparrow Time Plus :: Comments (1)
Lynn Barber makes a dent in her county big year, coming to appreciate the subtly plumaged birds that make it possible. READ MORE »
Blogger: LYNN BARBER
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Website: lynnbarberbirding.blogspot.com
ABA Board member Lynn Barber started birding at the age of 7. In 2005, she broke the Texas big year record with 522 species, and in 2008, she tallied 723 bird species in the ABA Area. An account of her ABA Big Year, entitled Extreme Birder: One Woman’s Big Year, was published in the spring of 2011. While living in North Carolina, Lynn was active in Wake County Audubon and on the board of the Carolina Bird Club. Moving to Texas in 2000, she was active in the Fort Worth Audubon Society, serving as its president for 3 years. She is a life member of the Texas Ornithological Society, and became its president in April 2009. She now lives in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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04/30/2013 - Contest Update - Big Year 200 Species :: Comments (3)
Last week I announced a contest for people to guess the date this year that I reach 200 species in my Pennington Co. (SD) big year, the prize for the closest guess being a signed copy of my book, Extreme Birder: One Woman's Big Year. The response has been great.... READ MORE »
Last week I announced a contest for people to guess the date this year that I reach 200 species in my Pennington Co. (SD) big year, the prize for the closest guess being a signed copy of my book, Extreme Birder: One Woman's Big Year. The response has been great.... READ MORE »
04/23/2013 - Bird Questions - and a Contest! :: Comments (2)
What is it about the number 100 that many people seem to think is noteworthy? Why is a list of 100 birds, or birding sites, or counties birded or anything, so much more likely to be mentioned than 99 or 101 of the same things? Although I have been birding... READ MORE »
What is it about the number 100 that many people seem to think is noteworthy? Why is a list of 100 birds, or birding sites, or counties birded or anything, so much more likely to be mentioned than 99 or 101 of the same things? Although I have been birding... READ MORE »
04/09/2013 - Self-restraint :: Comments (2)
I’m guessing that most people who think about doing big years and about what big year birders do and who big year birders are rarely think about “restraint”. If the big year is a serious big year, it’s more likely that the only restraints that the big year birder allows... READ MORE »
I’m guessing that most people who think about doing big years and about what big year birders do and who big year birders are rarely think about “restraint”. If the big year is a serious big year, it’s more likely that the only restraints that the big year birder allows... READ MORE »
03/26/2013 - A “GOOD” BIRD :: Comments (0)
Yesterday I realized, once again, that what I think is a “good” bird often changes. I suspect that is true for many of us. When we first became birders, any bird, even if we could not figure out what it was, was a good bird. The birds became even better... READ MORE »
Yesterday I realized, once again, that what I think is a “good” bird often changes. I suspect that is true for many of us. When we first became birders, any bird, even if we could not figure out what it was, was a good bird. The birds became even better... READ MORE »
03/12/2013 - Taking a Big Year Break to Honduras :: Comments (0)
It will be a short blog post this time. As I mentioned I was going to do in my last blog post, I took a break from big year birding, and from U.S. birding for that matter, and I went to Honduras for just over a week. I returned home... READ MORE »
It will be a short blog post this time. As I mentioned I was going to do in my last blog post, I took a break from big year birding, and from U.S. birding for that matter, and I went to Honduras for just over a week. I returned home... READ MORE »
02/26/2013 - Big Year Interruptions :: Comments (1)
Lynn Barber puts the Big Year on hold, but only hesitantly... READ MORE »
Lynn Barber puts the Big Year on hold, but only hesitantly... READ MORE »
02/12/2013 - BIG YEAR COUNTING IN A COUNTY :: Comments (1)
Lynn Barber transitions from a state Big Year to a county Big Year. READ MORE »
Lynn Barber transitions from a state Big Year to a county Big Year. READ MORE »
01/01/2013 - NEVERMORE :: Comments (0)
When I see the word “nevermore”, I immediately think of ravens, and as this year drew to an end, every time I thought of the Common Ravens that others had seen in South Dakota but I could not find, I increasingly thought “nevermore”. I assume that someday I’ll see one... READ MORE »
When I see the word “nevermore”, I immediately think of ravens, and as this year drew to an end, every time I thought of the Common Ravens that others had seen in South Dakota but I could not find, I increasingly thought “nevermore”. I assume that someday I’ll see one... READ MORE »
12/04/2012 - LET ME COUNT THE WAYS :: Comments (2)
About 15 years ago, a non-birding friend (yes, I have some of those) asked me why I like to go watch birds so much. I guess it was something I had never thought much about and I did not have a very good answer for her. I just knew that... READ MORE »
About 15 years ago, a non-birding friend (yes, I have some of those) asked me why I like to go watch birds so much. I guess it was something I had never thought much about and I did not have a very good answer for her. I just knew that... READ MORE »
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