Robert and others, For my moderate year, I netted (figuratively) 349 species, and 15 were life birds, bringing my life total to 628. Moderate is, of course, a relative term. Was it just two years ago that Dan Sanders got over 700? I began 2007 the same way I begin most years, by looking out the door just after midnight and noting the roosting Carolina Wren in the Phoebe nest. This has worked for about the last ten years or so. Nice to be able to count on such a nice bird. It will sing to me in the morning, as it always does. It won't really sing to me. I'll just hear it, but we do often sing to each other. My goal for 07 will again be 400 species. One of these years I might actually make it, but don't want to work too hard, or it won't be fun. Joe in the woods, Perry County ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]