<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Tweeters & InlandNW Birders<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An updated version of the 2022 County Yearlist Project is up and available at Washington Birder.</div><div class=""><a href="http://wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html" class="">http://wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Thanks compilers for all your work, and thanks everyone who has contributed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This update, coming at the end of August and as Fall Migration was just beginning, is less ’stable’ in timing that some of the other updates - some migrants might show up just a little earlier or later and bend the numbers - nevertheless, it is interesting to see where things stand.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s how things look compared with recent years:</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">We’ve tallied 381 species statewide as of the end of August in 2022</b>. That’s 9 above last year at this point, 3 above 2020 and 13 better than 2019’s total. </div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">For Western WA, our 351 total </b><span class="">is 11 higher than last year, and 7 higher than 2020.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><b class="">For Eastern WA, our 316 total</b><span class=""> is 1 lower than last year, but 4 better than 2020.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Overall, we’re doing a bit better than last year when it comes to diversity of species seen, though a little low in Eastern WA.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">17 Counties have higher totals than this time last year, while 18 have lower totals than at this point last year. Four counties have exactly the same total as at this point last year [Cowlitz, Mason, Snohomish & Spokane].</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">79 species have been seen in all 39 counties</b>, and 165 species have been found in 30 or more counties.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><div class="" style="font-weight: normal;">A handful of species new to the year list have come in since the end of August- It looks like we’ll add Sharp-tailed Sandpipers, Tropical Kingbird Boreal Owl, Philadelphia Vireo, Magnolia Warbler and others in September. But things like Scripps’s Murrelet & Short-tailed Albatross might go missing on the year totals this time around. We’ve still got plenty of time for more fall vagrants to pop up, along with winter surprises like perhaps an eider or odd gull. And with Neah Bay open for late fall birding, who knows what surprises remain….</div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal;">If you'd like to take a look at where things stand, the list and many other interesting files are at the Washington Birder website: </div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><br class=""><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.wabirder.com/__;!!JYXjzlvb!zG34Bg6bHN7DFbBBUaTDwShMg1FqqyJYn5MFZzMWbfTt3uAOqMTkSTJu0EzT-2kdesFyODa5qw$" class="">http://www.wabirder.com/</a> <br class=""><br class=""><br class="">A direct link to the 2022 county yearlist & the list of county compilers contact info:<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html__;!!JYXjzlvb!zG34Bg6bHN7DFbBBUaTDwShMg1FqqyJYn5MFZzMWbfTt3uAOqMTkSTJu0EzT-2kdesFgZPFJVA$" class="">http://www.wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html</a><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><b class=""><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important;"><div class="" style="display: inline !important;"><div class="" style="display: inline !important;">Thanks to all the compilers and all those pitching in to sketch a picture of another year's birds in WA. </div></div></div></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important;"><div class="" style="display: inline !important;"><div class="" style="display: inline !important;"><br class=""></div></div></div></b></div><div class="">Good birding,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">Matt Bartels <br class="">Seattle, WA </div></div></div></div></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>