I estimate that I spend about $500 on gas each year while birding
and I rarely leave Clatsop Co. Throw in donuts and chocolate....

> Having seen a lot of such estimates on money spent on "birding"
> activities in various jurisdictions, I usually have a hard time
> believing them anymore. I wonder what they were smoking when they came
> up with $1.3 billion spent annually on birding in Washington. The most
> recent census pegs the State's population at 5,987,973. Putting those
> two numbers together produces an average of just over $217 spent PER
> Washingtonian per year on birding. I find that hard to believe, even if
> one includes bird feed, cat de-clawing, and other remotely bird related
> items. And since the actual number of birders isn't even close to the
> total population, the per capita spent would be even higher. Even if we
> say that one in a hundred (I'm sure that is much too high)
> Washingtonians is a birder, the average amount spent per birder would be
> $21,710 each. One in a thousand would be $217,102 each. One in 10
> persons would be $2,171 each.
>
> Scott Ray
> Yakima, WA
> Mryakima at NWInfo dot net

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

Half-a-bee, philosophically must ipso-facto half not-be.
But half the bee, has got to bee Vis-a-vis its entity...
d'you see?
But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee
When half the bee is not a bee due to some ancient injury?
-Monty Python

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