Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:12:48 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bill Ellis Subject: Re: tally rally possibilities In-Reply-To: <000001c3c679$4f0cd790$6400a8c0@NORM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Norm and Lydia: I think that Norm's data imported into a spreadsheet program like Excel could give a real-time bar graph of yearly totals. That seems easy to me, compared to scraping together the money for a projection device for a computer, to show it on the wall (ca. $3000?). Bill Ellis Lydia Schindler writes: > ... each team called out its results, and we watched as John Martin > added the 2003 totals to a computerized graph, projected on the wall, > that showed annual results for each species from 1957 to the present." Norm Saunders writes: I've been putting together a database of all the Christmas Counts in MD and DE (in whole or in part). I have data entered for 33 counts (current counts only, no historical ones) for the 75th through the 103rd CBC. There are 30 counts now considered in MD/DE and I've added data from the DC, Fort Belvoir, and Mount Davis PA counts as well. ... Now I'm beginning to toy around with queries and reports to print out species-by-year and species-by-5yr averages for individual counts and for counts by region. I'm using Access XP as the database program ... ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================