<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Tweeters and Inland NW Birders -<div><br></div><div>An updated version of the 2023 County Year List Project is up and available at Washington Birder. All 39 counties sent in updates of the year list at the mid-way point. Thanks compilers for all your work, and thanks everyone who has contributed.</div><div><br></div><div>I think of the mid-year check-in as a relatively stable time of year to compare across years — The end of June finds us mostly done with spring migration, and still ahead of fall migration. Fall shorebird migration is already picking up though, so a few early returns might be in here.</div><div><br></div><div>Here’s how things look compared with recent years:</div><div><br></div><div><b>We’ve tallied 365 species statewide as of the mid-way point in 2023</b>. That’s almost exactly on the average total at this point [364], though it is two lower than 2022 at this point.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>In Western WA, our 335 total is 1 higher than last year’s at this point.</b> The total ties our highest for this point since 2012, and we are above average [326] by a good amount</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>In Eastern WA, our 296 species tallied is ten lower than last year at this point. </b><span>This is our lowest total for E WA on over a decade.</span>.</div><div><br></div><div><b>29 Counties have a total within 10 species of the check-in at this point last year</b> -although still a lot of consistency, this seems to show more variation than usual from this point last year.</div><div><br></div><div><b>13 counties are higher than they were at this point last year</b>, 25 are lower, and 1 [Snohomish] was at exactly the same total as last year’s check-in.</div><div><br></div><div><b>60 species have been seen in all 39 counties </b><span>(last year that number was 64)</span><b>.</b> and 153 species have been found in 30 or more counties — that’s our core of wide-spread regulars, and pretty similar to other years at this point.</div><div><br></div><div><b><div 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 style="font-weight: normal;"><br><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.wabirder.com/__;!!JYXjzlvb!zG34Bg6bHN7DFbBBUaTDwShMg1FqqyJYn5MFZzMWbfTt3uAOqMTkSTJu0EzT-2kdesFyODa5qw$">http://www.wabirder.com/</a> <br><br><br>A direct link to the 2023 county yearlist & the list of county compilers contact info:<div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html__;!!JYXjzlvb!zG34Bg6bHN7DFbBBUaTDwShMg1FqqyJYn5MFZzMWbfTt3uAOqMTkSTJu0EzT-2kdesFgZPFJVA$">http://www.wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><br></div><br><div><b><div style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><div 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><b><div style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><br></div></div></div></b></div><div>Good birding,</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>Matt Bartels <br>Seattle, WA </div></div></div></div></b></div></body></html>