Folks

I am still doing my BIG Photo year.  I am currently at 287 species photographed during 2008.  Below is my wishlist for the remaining year.  My goal is to see if 300 species can be photographed in a calendar year in Maryland.  I might make it.  I am posting as time permits the images for 2008, some not so good, some very nice, on my website:  www.georgejett.net.  

Look at the wishlist and if you can help that will be appreciated.  I have also included some possible dates when to target species.  If you find anything on this list I would appreciate a listserve post or contact me at   If the species is real rare like Western Kingbird and generally a one-day wonder, call me on the cellphone at 301-752-9240.  I have identified call birds by "*".  I will chase any Western Meadowlark or any other quality bird like that as well.  

I have been getting an incredible amount of help from a number of birders and will acknowledge all of them at the end of the year.  This has turned into a large group effort thanks to them, and the real reason I might make my goal - or better.  

I am doing this as a fund raising effort for the American Bird Conservancy.  If you are interested in supporting this fund raising effort, contact me off line.  Donations can be similar to birdathon rules:  a per species donation, or a lump sum.  

Thanks in advance.

George

The wishlist:

2008 Photo Target List as of August 31

Photo species as of this date is 287

1 Western Grebe*

2 Leach's Storm-Petrel August

3 Wood Stork *

4 Eurasian Wigeon* Nov/Dec

5 Common Eider*  Nov/Dec 

6 Northern Goshawk * Nov/Dec

7 Golden Eagle*  Nov/Dec

8 Merlin October

9 Ring-necked Pheasant All year

10 Ruffed Grouse * All year

11 Sora September

12 White-rumped Sandpiper September

13 Baird's Sandpiper*  September

14 Buff-breasted Sandpiper September August 31

15 Ruff * August/September

16 American Woodcock All year

17 Wilson's Phalarope*  August/September

18 Red Phalarope*  September

19 Pomarine Jaeger*  Sept/Oct/Nov

20 Parasitic Jaeger*  Sept/Oct/Nov

21 Long-tailed Jaeger  August

22 South Polar Skua August

23 Black-headed Gull December August 30

24 Thayer's Gull*  December

25 Glaucous Gull*  December

26 Black-legged Kittiwake*  Nov/Dec

27 Sabine's Gull* 

28 Gull-billed Tern * August

29 Arctic Tern* 

30 Roseate Tern* 

31 Sooty Tern*  September

32 Common Murre*  Winter

33 Thick-billed Murre* Winter

34 Razorbill*  December

35 Black-billed Cuckoo August

36 Snowy Owl* 

37 Long-eared Owl* December

38 Chuck-wills-widow 

39 Whip-poor-will

40 Hammond's Flycatcher*

41 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Aug/Sept

42 Ash-throated Flycatcher* Nov/Dec

43 Western Kingbird* Sept/Oct

44 Sedge Wren September - December

45 Gray-checked Thrush* Sept/Oct

46 Bicknell's Thrush* Sept/Oct

47 Swainson's Thrush Sept/Oct

48 Northern Shrike* December

49 Loggerhead Shrike* December

50 Philadelphia Vireo* September

51 Tennessee Warbler September

52 Nashville Warbler September

53 Cape May Warbler September

54 Connecticut Warbler* Sept/Oct

55 Clay-colored Sparrow* Sept/Oct

56 Lark Sparrow*  September - Assateague

57 Le Conte's Sparrow* Nov/Dec

58 Snow Bunting* Nov/Dec

59 Brewer's Blackbird* Nov/Dec

60 Red Crossbill * Nov/Dec 

61 Common Redpoll*  Nov/Dec

George M. Jett