As I noted in today’s other post, it’s ugly outside (37F, heavy rain and sleet plus a thunderstorm. This weather does NOT encourage anyone to go birding. In short it is an excellent morning for doing stuff on my computer. One of my tasks was to update my photography index of species for this blog / website. While I am not a “list keeper” and do not submit many lists to eBird, and do not maintain a life’s list of sightings, I do know the number of bird species that I have taken a photograph and then posted it here.

This morning the number of bird species hit 400! While I had not kept track down in Tucson, once back up north I discovered I had achieved that epic number. Here are the three birds which put my number of species at 400. It was actually the “lowly house sparrow” which actually gave me number 400. I did not realize I had never taken the time to photograph this kind of sparrow … making me not a very good numbers guy / list enhancer!

• Rich’s Bird Photography Index
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Cinnamon Teal: 398

Green-Tailed Towhee: 399

House Sparrow: 400!