Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:12:37 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: Re: Atlas Challenge: The Final Answer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stan Arnold asks: > Will someone remind us what the original record was, so we know how many > species it was exceeded by? I think it was 33 hundred and something. > The MD/DC Big Tick was inaugurated in 2001 and the high annual count for that year was Dave Perry's 3,322. When I first reported this total in last year's list report I mentioned rather off-handedly that I wondered if Jim Stasz would rise to the challenge (since he already owns the top all-time Big Tick number). He did and the rest is history. Best, Norm ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================