Hi everyone, I need some extra motivation to go birding... It's hot outside, ticks and mosquitoes are plentiful, migrants are rare (save a few early shorebirds), fledglings are out en force taxing my ID skills, and summer vagrants and dispersing youngsters from the south and the west as hard to find as ever. But we should still go birding. And we should, of course, keep eBirding all those local breeders ;-) So here's my proposal: how about a friendly state-wide birding competition for July, in the spirit of the January 100? The January species list for Ohio (according to eBird) stands at 224 species. The July species list? 269. If we scaled a goal of 100 species accordingly, that would bring us up to 120. So how about it -- July 100 is a respectable goal, and for the really listers among you, 120 a respectable challenge. Other than that, the usual January 100 "rules" apply. See you in the field, Paul Hurtado Columbus, OH ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]