<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><br></div><div>Happy to announce the 2024 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 2024 - <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://wabirder.com/online.html__;!!JYXjzlvb!klyGfMaiYiakJTdtJjhCpnIXCByCMv-JnymPOylNMJ8Db4R8vrwdZ11wpoKJTTo6BeUW4j7FdewQtXQgqf3rxkEtN2z_$">http://wabirder.com/online.html</a></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>List report here: <a href="http://wabirder.com/docs/listreport2024.pdf">http://wabirder.com/docs/listreport2024.pdf</a></li><li>Big day report here: <a href="http://wabirder.com/docs/2024BigDayReport.pdf">http://wabirder.com/docs/2024BigDayReport.pdf</a></li><li><br></li></ul><div><br></div></div><div><b>Highlights for the year:</b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b>Four people reported year lists over 300:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Darchelle Worley, Brian Pendleton, Greg Harrington and Bruce LaBar</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b>Three people reached 100 species in all 39 counties:</b></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">Bob Flores<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 13.5pt 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><font color="#002060" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Bill LaFramboise</span></font></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 13.5pt 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><font color="#002060" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Nancy LaFramboise</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br></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;"></p><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Jefferson: Steve Hampton, with 225 species</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Whatcom: Stephen Chase, with 250 species</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Whitman: RJ Baltierra, with 244 species</span></li></ul><p></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;"></p><ul class="MailOutline"><li><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;">Benton County by Christopher Lindsey, Jef Blake and Laurie Ness</font></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Douglas</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";"> Neil Paprocki, Joe Veverka and Tucker Jonas</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Klickitat County by Samuel Holman, Jacob Miller and Jonathan Lockwood</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Spokane County by Luke Thomas and Andrew Thomas</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14px;"> </span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"></p><ul class="MailOutline"></ul><p></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, county-by-county life list totals 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/listreport2024.pdf">http://wabirder.com/docs/listreport2024.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>And a direct link to the Big Day report from 2023 is here: <a href="http://wabirder.com/docs/2024BigDayReport.pdf">http://wabirder.com/docs/2024BigDayReport.pdf</a></div><div><br></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 2025.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Matt Bartels</div><div>Washington Birder</div></div></body></html>