Date: 7/11/26 5:31 am From: Kevin Colley via groups.io <Kcolley71...> Subject: Re: [labird] Keepin' a List . . .
Thanks Mac. I was looking for a separate link to the Cardiff survey. No worries.
Kevin
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> On Jul 10, 2026, at 10:44 AM, Mac Myers <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...> > wrote:
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>> Hi Mac,
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>> Unless I’m doing something wrong, all I get is a link to Avast. Some sort
>> of email protection service.
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>> Kevin
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>> > On Jul 9, 2026, at 8:17 PM, Mac Myers via groups.io ( http://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 (
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>> >> Here is the summary of the 1991 yard list challenge in the LOS News.
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>> >> http://losbird.org/documents/newsletters/los_news_146_92apr.htm >> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM Bill Fontenot via groups.io (
>> http://groups.io )
>> >> <williamrodneyfontenot= <gmail.com...> > wrote:
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>> >>> Nan, I well remember the year long yard list challenge! Wasn’t it our
>> old
>> >>> friend John Sevenair who initiated that?
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>> >>> Living in the woods along Bayou Vermilion at the time I figured I’d do
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>> >>> 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.
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>> >>> Them was fun times!
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>> >>> Bill Fontenot
>> >>> 500 Saint Catherine St.
>> >>> Lafayette, LA 70506
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>> >>>> On Jul 9, 2026, at 12:01 PM, Nancy L Newfield via groups.io (
>> http://groups.io ) <nancy=
>> >>> <casacolibri.net...> > wrote:
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>> >>>> LABIRDers,
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>> >>>> 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 .
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>> >> .
>> >>>> OCD anyone?
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>> >>>>
>> >>>> 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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