<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 all -<br><div><div><div><br></div><div>Happy to announce the 2023 Year List & Big Day report for Washington Birder are up and available.</div><div>It is always fun to pull together this glimpse of our community.</div><div><br></div><div>Check out the files at the following link to see how everyone did in 2023 - <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://wabirder.com/online.html__;!!JYXjzlvb!klyGfMaiYiakJTdtJjhCpnIXCByCMv-JnymPOylNMJ8Db4R8vrwdZ11wpoKJTTo6BeUW4j7FdewQtXQgqf3rxkEtN2z_$">http://wabirder.com/online.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Highlights for the year:</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">Liam Hutcheson set a new Washington State Big Year record with 378 </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">species.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Three people reached 100 species in all 39 counties:</b></font></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 13.5pt 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial Narrow">Brian Pendleton<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 13.5pt 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial Narrow">Darchelle Worley <o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 13.5pt 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">Ed Pullen</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>And two people reached 150 species in every county</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial Narrow">David Koyama<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial Narrow">Penny Koyama</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial Narrow"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;">New County big year records were set this year for three counties:</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Grays Harbor </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"> </span><b style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Liam Hutcheson</b><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">, with 250 species</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Pacific County:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"> </span><b style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Bill Shelmerdine</b><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">, with 206 species</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">SKAGIT County:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"> </span><b style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Joel Brady-Power</b><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">, with 262 species</span></li></ul></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Highest ever county big days were reported this year for four counties</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><ul class="MailOutline"><li><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;">Benton County by Rowan Young-McMurchie</font><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"> </font></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Chelan</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">County by</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Neil Paprocki and Tucker Jonas</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">King</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">County by</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Adrian Lee, Christian Hagenlocher and Raphael Fennimore</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Whatcom</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">County by</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Stephen Chase, Josiah Chase and Titus Chase</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px;"> </span></li></ul></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"></p><ul class="MailOutline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></ul></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial Narrow"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div>All that and more is compiled in this year’s report.</div><div><br></div><div>A direct link to the list report with all the state & county life and year list totals can be found here: <a href="http://wabirder.com/docs/listreport2023.pdf">http://wabirder.com/docs/listreport2023.pdf</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><br></div><div>And a direct link to the Big Day report from 2023 is here: <a href="http://wabirder.com/docs/2023BigDayReport.pdf">http://wabirder.com/docs/2023BigDayReport.pdf</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone who sent in your totals, and here’s to many more updates and surprises in 2024.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Matt Bartels</div><div>Washington Birder</div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></body></html>