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New Games for a New Year

10,000 Birds

Way back last year, a whole two weeks ago, a sudden influx of Ross’s Geese in central North Carolina led to an unofficial competition between myself and some birders in the Raleigh-Durham Area. Enter my newest creation, the Piedmont eBird Challenge! An informal goose competition can become a more formal regional competition.

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The Goal – 200 by 2016

10,000 Birds

In the darkening evening and rain, I found the goose among a flock of golf course Canada Geese. May 7, 2015 – I started the day in Raleigh, 100 miles from home, not expected to get any birding done. I finished my business in Raleigh, and headed home to grab my bins and camera, then headed out again.

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