Tweets,

I suggested a "green birding year" last January, to reach 300 in Washington on less than 200 gallons. I got to 300 with a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper a couple of weeks ago and was well beneath my gas quota until the Prothonotary Warbler alert, for which I reverted to my old profligate habits.

However, I would suggest we should minimize our gas consumption not because of the price of gas (in dollars, that is) but because of the ecological and other impacts of our profligate gas guzzling.

I hope to do better next year. Cut back to 100 gallons perhaps. I have found that the two best ways to do so without just not birding are:

1) carpool or use public transport as often as possible;
2) focus on local birding hotspots; local parklists, yard lists, county lists, rather than anything more ambitious, which is to say, find your own rare birds.

Good green birding!

Gene Hunn
18476 47th Pl NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
enhunn323 at comcast.net


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