SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT SHOT The Shot Glass, Vol. 1 January 1999 Totals Coeditors: Allison Wells, Matt Medler Fire eater: Matt Medler GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS CUPPER SUPPER: Don't forget to mark your calendar for the 3rd Annual Cupper Supper! February 28, antics starting at 5pm. Bring a dish to pass (if you all bring desserts, so be it!) We'll have wine and soft drinks as usual, but we don't dare supply the beer, what with the likes of connoisseur Kevin McGowan roaming the premises. We also encourage you to save the world by bringing your own reusable eating utensils. We'll be awarding fabulous prizes, they'll be lots of good music, and we may be able to coherse Ken Rosenberg into a table dance or two...or maybe not. Meanwhile, to help with the foolishness, please send responses to the following question to amw25@cornell.edu: You know you're a birder if ... (Example: You know you're a birder if your idea of a dream vacation is to a parasite-infested, hot, rainy tropical forest.) COUNT FOR THE BIRDS: This weekend (Feb 19-22) is the 2nd Annual Backyard Bird Count! What better way to get your yard totals up than by participating? Everything you need to know is at the web site <http:birdsource.cornell.edu>. We'll be looking for your read dot... David Cup Compiled by Matt Medler Last year's birding sensation, Matt Young, promised that he was going to take it easy this year. Sure, Matt. So where do we find Matt at the end of January but at the top of the leaderboard, with a new record total for the month. Suddenly, 100 birds in January doesn't seem so impossible after all. Throw in a few winter finches, two or three more owls, and a couple of odd birds that Matt missed, and Kurt Fox doesn't seem so crazy after all. 88 Matt Young 86 Tom Nix 80 Chris Tessaglia-Hymes 79 Bill Evans 75 Matt Medler 73 Jon Kloppel 72 Jay McGowan 70 Bard Prentiss 67 Kevin McGowan 63 Andy Farnsworth 63 Geo Kloppel 60 Jeff Wells 59 Nancy Dickinson 57 Martha Fischer 57 Allison Wells 56 Rachel Kloppel 55 Marty Schlabach 52 Kim Kline 46 Tringa 44 Anne Kendall 42 Meena Haribal 41 Chris Butler 40 Aaron Kloppel 37 Ben Taft 28 Perri McGowan 27 Jim Lowe 24 Swift 11 Teddy 9 Mimi McIlroy Award Compiled by Matt Medler Stop me if you've heard this one before--Bill Evans jumps out to a big McIlroy total in January, starts talking some trash, and then leaves the Basin. He is to be commended for setting what he claims is the new McIlroy record for the month. But as I try to tell greenhorn Matt Sarver, it's not about the January total, or the February total, or even the November total. This is a marathon. Let's see where Bill ends up come December 31. 66 Bill Evans 53 Martha Fischer 45 Jay McGowan 43 Matt Medler 40 Allison Wells 39 Jeffrey Wells 36 Kevin McGowan 25 Jim Lowe Evans Trophy Compiled by Bard Prentiss 37 Jay McGowan 35 Kevin McGowan 35 Bard Prentiss BUT WHERE'S MATT YOUNG'S? Lansing Listers 56 Kevin McGowan 52 Jay McGowan |
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