Date: 7/10/26 7:06 am From: Nancy L Newfield via groups.io <nancy...> Subject: Re: [labird] Keepin' a List . . .
Same here. I had tried yesterday.
By the way, the Purple Gallinule just put in its first showing of the day,
I saw it eat a green elderberry, so that must be the attraction. The
Elderberry is about 25 feet tall by 20 feet wide,
NLN
On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM Kevin Colley <kcolley71...> wrote:
> Hi Mac,
>
> Unless I’m doing something wrong, all I get is a link to Avast. Some sort
> of email protection service.
>
> Kevin
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> > On Jul 9, 2026, at 8:17 PM, Mac Myers via groups.io <budogmacm=
> <gmail.com...> wrote:
> >
> > David, thanks for a very interesting and fun post. Note also the
> following
> > pelagic post by Steve Cardiff.
> >
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> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail > >
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> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM David P. Muth via groups.io <muthdp=
> >> <gmail.com...> wrote:
> >>
> >> Here is the summary of the 1991 yard list challenge in the LOS News.
> >>
> >> http://losbird.org/documents/newsletters/los_news_146_92apr.htm > >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM Bill Fontenot via groups.io
> >> <williamrodneyfontenot...> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Nan, I well remember the year long yard list challenge! Wasn’t it our
> old
> >>> friend John Sevenair who initiated that?
> >>>
> >>> Living in the woods along Bayou Vermilion at the time I figured I’d do
> >>> well — even vs Remsen, Cardiff, and Dittmann who were living in the
> woods
> >>> around Bayou Paul (Iberville parish). I worked my ass off to get to 100
> >> sp.
> >>> That was my goal. I made it to 101. Felt smug — till I saw
> >> Cardiff/Dittmann
> >>> post something like 199.
> >>>
> >>> Them was fun times!
> >>>
> >>> Bill Fontenot
> >>> 500 Saint Catherine St.
> >>> Lafayette, LA 70506
> >>>
> >>>> On Jul 9, 2026, at 12:01 PM, Nancy L Newfield via groups.io <nancy=
> >>> <casacolibri.net...> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> LABIRDers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Who among us doesn't keep lists? Life list? Country list? State list
> >> on
> >>>> down to parish and yard? I've kept lists of birds that I've seen even
> >>>> before my husband and I moved into our current residence in old
> >> Metairie
> >>> in
> >>>> 1970 . . . and I've regretted not keeping a list earlier than that . .
> >> .
> >>>> OCD anyone?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, over the years, listing has been everything from casual to
> manic,
> >>>> mostly manic. I recall LOS once 'sponsoring' a yard list challenge.
> >> No,
> >>> I
> >>>> think the year was 1990 or 1991. Anyone recall?
> >>>>
> >>>> Of course, the more one tallies, the less there is to tally though
> >> we've
> >>>> added more species to the Louisiana list. I was pleased to add a
> >> flyover
> >>>> Limpkin to my yard list while having morning coffee in 2025. What
> more
> >>> can
> >>>> one hope for???
> >>>>
> >>>> On 5 July, very unexpectedly, I looked out of the back window of my
> >>> office
> >>>> AND, THERE WAS AN ADULT PURPLE GALLINULE!!! Score.
> >>>>
> >>>> It didn't show the next day, so I thought it was indeed a fluke, but
> >> I've
> >>>> gotten brief views every day since.
> >>>>
> >>>> Maybe LOS should have another yard list challenge for 2027?
> >>>>
> >>>> NLN
> >>>> --
> >>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>> Nancy L Newfield
> >>>> Casa Colibrí
> >>>> Metairie, Louisiana USA
> >>>> <nancy...>
> >>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> >>
> >> --
> >> David P. Muth
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Nancy L Newfield
Casa Colibrí
Metairie, Louisiana USA
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