I don't know when official results come out, but here are some unofficial results of the 2012 Montezuma Muckrace run this weekend. Wind and rain Saturday morning made it a hard slog, but more teams than ever competed and completed the competition. My apologies, but I don't remember the whole list of people who won, placed, or showed (?, shown?) in all categories. Below are an Ithaca-biased subset that I remember.
Competitive Category. 1st Place - The Gallinagos - Chris Tessaglia-Hymes, Kevin McGowan, Jay McGowan, and Gerard Phillips (sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club); 135 species 2nd Place - Three-eyed Raven (Game of Thrones TV reference, I am told; it was a crow in the book) - Hope Bachelor, Tim Lenz, Andy Johnson , Brad Walker, and Ben (drat! I forgot his last name); 131 species 3rd Place - The Wind Birders, from I believe Rochester and Buffalo (Bob Spahn's team); 111 species Recreational Category 1st Place - The Plucky Mucksters team - Bob McGuire, Susan Danskin, Ann Mitchell, Dave Nutter, Gary Kohlenberg, John Confer and Linda Orkin; 104 species (sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club) Low Carbon Category (Man, it was an awful day to be a low-carbonite, only on foot or bike! We got it from one of the soggy L-C participants that the suckiness factor was HUGE.) 3rd Place - The Thunder Chickens - Pete Marchetto, Katie Marchetto, and Kristin Hodge; 53 species (Turned out this was the most competitive category with, I think, 2nd place with 56 species and 1st with 58.) Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
