Date: 11/23/25 6:04 pm From: Nancy L Newfield via groups.io <nancy...> Subject: Re: [labird] Fewer birds?
Sandra et al,
I'm glad you brought this up. Here in suburban Metairie, the showing of
birds has been the worst I've ever seen. Since moving to the New Orleans
area in 1970, I've kept mostly regular handwritten notes on the avian
activity that I experience. There are about 45 notebooks, plus 4 looseleaf
binders and more recently just checklists that I have created for daily use
and different ones for banding trips. The quality of the notes varies, but
I've aspired to be as accurate as possible, following guidelines that I
learned from a couple of birding courses that I took years ago, and from a
paper that Van Remsen published way back when.
Now that we have eBird, I've worked at transcribing much of those notes
into eBird and have noticed a few other times when avian traffic was really
slow, but nothing like the dearth of birds at this time. Today, I've
counted 35 individual birds of 8 species. There was 1 small flock of 8
American Robins, the first I've seen here since November 2023. The
demographics and housing have changed a few times over my tenure at this
location, and never for the better, but we do still have some nice trees
and my hummer garden has been '*primo*', with only 1 recent hummer that I
saw twice.
The birds are not here.
NLN
On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM Sandra Barbier via groups.io <sandabar10=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> Someone I know in Crowley says he has not seen any birds in his yard
> recently. I think he means migrants and locals. Has anyone else noticed
> this and if so, do you know why it may be? I am thinking drought, maybe.
> Found this recent map of drought Louisiana Drought Deepens: 43% of State
> Now Affected — Louisiana Farm Bureau News
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> https://lafarmbureaunews.com/news/2025/11/20/louisiana-drought-deepens-43-of-state-now-affected > >
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> shows he is in an area marked "severe drought." Thanks.--
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> Sandra Barbier
> LaPlace, LA
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