Date: 7/11/26 8:08 am From: Nancy L Newfield via groups.io <nancy...> Subject: Re: [labird] Keepin' a List . . .
Thanks, Rosemary and Jay,
If this competition of sorts was created by a person who uses House Wren as
a bird that one sees around one's humble abode, I don't want any part of
it.
NLN
On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 9:33 PM Rosemary Seidler <rseidler...>
wrote:
> It was called Bird the Boot if anyone is interested in checking it out.
>
> Rosemary Seidler
> Shreveport
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> All - I suggest interacting with LDWF's public outreach program headed by
> Charles (Chuck) Jones who is in Rapides Parish. LDWF did its WMA project
> in May and it included a House Wren Category for people who chose to bird
> only their homes. - Jay H.
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> 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
>
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> > On Jul 10, 2026, at 10:44 AM, Mac Myers via groups.io <budogmacm=
> <gmail.com...> wrote:
> >
> > 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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> http://virus-free.www.avast.com/<http://virus-free.www.avast.com/>> > > <
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> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM Kevin Colley <kcolley71...> <
> mailto:<kcolley71...> <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
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> <
> >>
> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > >>>
> >>> Virus-free.http://www.avast.com/ > >>> <
> >>
> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > >>>
> >>> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
> >>>
> >>>> 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<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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