Date: 7/10/26 1:12 pm From: John Dillon via groups.io <kisforkryptonite...> Subject: Re: [labird] Keepin' a List . . .
All,
The last time we did a yard list challenge was during Covid. I was LOS Pres, and Donna Dittmann worked up a spreadsheet and a set of rules for coastal, southern interior, and northern interior zones. Gave us something to do when we couldn’t do field trips. It was over LOS spring weekend and maybe fall weekend, too.
What about a seasonal challenge? Like a sort of yard Christmas Bird Count running from this day to that day, and you submit everything you documented during that time? Could also have Merlin-assisted category and non-Merlin category to keep it fair.
JD
> On Jul 10, 2026, at 10:44 AM, Mac Myers via groups.io <budogmacm...> wrote:
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> All, I did not link to anything; maybe the Avast thing did so
> automatically. The Steve Cardiff article was below the article about yard
> lists in the LOS News linked by David, not below in my email. Sorry for the
> confusion.
>
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM Kevin Colley <kcolley71...> <mailto:<kcolley71...>> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>>> On Jul 9, 2026, at 8:17 PM, Mac Myers via groups.io <budogmacm=
>> <gmail.com...> wrote:
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>>> David, thanks for a very interesting and fun post. Note also the
>> following
>>> pelagic post by Steve Cardiff.
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>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM David P. Muth via groups.io <muthdp=
>>>> <gmail.com...> wrote:
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>>>> 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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