Hi all - Just a quick note - if you have completed your Christmas Bird Count and are struggling with how to estimate your "Miles Walked" total, here's a great way - Go to Google Earth (it's a free download that takes only a few minutes, but is endlessly entertaining) Find the satellite map of your CBC area At the toolbar atop the screen, Select the little "Ruler" Icon Select the Path setting make sure that Mouse Navigation is selected if you are using a mouse Blow up the map enough to be able to see the area you walked, and click on your starting point. Now simply click the mouse at points along your path, and it will read out the path length in the Ruler box atop the screen. Draw a path for every time you left the car / walked a trail / biked / canoed / kayaked, etc. Depending on where you went, it might end up looking like one of those Family Circus cartoons of little Billy's route from Point A to Point B. ;-) Compared to the mileage you might have guessed, I'll bet you will be amazed at how much farther you actually walked. Case in point - yesterday I canoed the Nueces River for the Corpus Christi CBC and covered 13.2 miles. No wonder my arms are tired! Clay Taylor Calallen, TX (Corpus Christi) ctaylor@att.net