{"id":1001916,"date":"2009-01-14T21:29:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T02:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001916"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T02:35:09","slug":"planning-for-bgby-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2009\/01\/14\/planning-for-bgby-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for BGBY 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished 2008 with 156 BGBY species<\/a>, well behind the 200+ Neil Gilbert racked up in the same county, and he’s not as well situated as I am. In my defense I didn’t start until February, and was also dealing with a move to a new state. I didn’t even get my bike repaired from damage the movers did to it until April, and I lost a couple of weeks in the middle of Spring migration on a trip to China. With some effort, this year I might be able to crack 200. <\/p>\n

However doing that is going to take some work. In particular:
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  1. I have to keep better tabs on what’s showing up at San Joaquin. Even though it’s practically next door, I still missed a dozen or more birds that showed up there this year.<\/li>\n
  2. I have to get to the beach more. I have to go at least once a month, and hit different sites. <\/li>\n
  3. I have to spend more time at Upper Newport Bay.<\/li>\n
  4. I have to get to Bolsa Chica, I could do this via bike or perhaps public transit. <\/li>\n
  5. It wouldn’t hurt to get to Huntington Central Park when something good is seen here either. I need to learn to use public transit in this county. The 176 goes from my house to just a couple of blocks away from Huntington Central Park. Too bad there aren’t any buses that go up Jamboree to Irvine Regional Park, Peters Canyon, and Santiago Oaks. <\/li>\n
  6. I have to walk or bike to work more often, especially when there’s something good at San Joaquin or Upper Newport Bay.<\/li>\n
  7. The toughest one of all: I’m going to have to get to the mountains at least once, preferably more often. That’s a long ride, but it should be doable if I build up my strength on longer trips to the beach first. The New Year’s Eve trip to Badham<\/a> was a good start. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    200 is a stretch goal but it should be possible with more rarity chasing, and more use of bikes and public transit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I finished 2008 with 156 BGBY species, well behind the 200+ Neil Gilbert racked up in the same county, and he’s not as well situated as I am. In my defense I didn’t start until February, and was also dealing with a move to a new state. I didn’t even get my bike repaired from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001999,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001916\/revisions\/1001999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}