<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 all -<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Happy to announce the 2022 Year List & Big Day report for Washington Birder is up and available. </div><div class="">It is always fun to pull together this glimpse of our community.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Check out the files at the following link to see how everyone did in 2022 - <a href="http://wabirder.com/online.html" class="">http://wabirder.com/online.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Highlights for the year include:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The State Big Year record was tied, with <b class="">Brian Pendleton and Darchelle Worley</b> matching Will Brooks’s 2021 mark of 376.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">5 new county big year records and one tie w/ a previous county big year.</div><div class="" style="font-size: 11px;"><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">Russ Koppendrayer in Cowlitz County (</span><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">199)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">Steve Hampton in Jefferson County (</span><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">211)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">Timothy Brennan in Klickitat County (</span><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">188)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">Jacob Miller in Mason County (</span><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">200)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">Mark Selle in Spokane County (</span><span style="font-size: 13.666666984558105px; font-family: ArialNarrow;" class="">241)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 13.666666984558105px;" class="">MerryLynn Denny in Walla Walla County (263) (matching Mike Denny</span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 13.666666984558105px;" class="">’</span><span style="font-family: ArialNarrow; font-size: 13.666666984558105px;" class="">s previous record)</span></li></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Greg Harrington became only the 36th person to reach 100+ species in all 39 counties.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">County Big Day records were set in Clallam County (126), Columbia County (101) and San Juan County (118).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All that and more is compiled in this year’s report.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A direct link to the list report with all the state & county life and year list totals can be found here: <a href="http://www.wabirder.com/docs/listreport2022.pdf" class="">http://www.wabirder.com/docs/listreport2022.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And a direct link to the Big Day report from 2022 is here: <a href="http://www.wabirder.com/docs/BigDayReport2022.pdf" class="">http://www.wabirder.com/docs/BigDayReport2022.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks to everyone who sent in your totals, and here’s to many more updates and surprises in 2023.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Matt Bartels</div><div class="">Washington Birder</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>