Many of you may remember Frank Justice, a long-time birder in the state. He kept meticulous records over the years, including numbers, time, date, exact locations and distances traveled, and weather conditions. And he kept them in large ledgers -- dozens of them! His wife Jan, (also a long-time Colorado birder and now my step-mother and very close friend!) has allowed me to start entering them in eBird. They start in the 40's and I'm only up to 1952 so far. It is great fun to see how the birds have changed over the years -- and yes to say, "Oh, sorry Hugh, but Frank saw that particular species first!"
-- But there's another side of it that's even more interesting -- The first time I "shared" one of his checklists with Jan on eBird, she was more than a little surprised to see an email from Frank Justice (who has been gone many many years.) But now it has become a lovely way of sharing her history -- she receives a shared list and tells me wonderful stories about where they were and the kinds of things happening as the lists remind her of them. Who knew that bird lists could provide a way of relating and sharing family history!
Mary Kay Waddington
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