<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399">Or like me, avoids FB. I do not wish to have an account on FB. So I miss out on those posts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399">But then, I don't care to compete in a photo contest, either. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399">I enjoy other's photos, for sure, but I don't post photos of birds, I post text only also.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399">I have enjoyed some poster's descriptions very much, some are almost poetry, a real pleasure to read.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399">It has inspired me to sometimes offer the same.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333399"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>- Pamela <br>Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Unknown</div><div><br></div><div>“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.” <br>― Aldo Leopold </div><div>I am one who cannot. </div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Kyle TePoel via Mnbird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">One of things that I struggle with on the Facebook page is that it seems more targeted for users with good photos to share, etc. I don't usually get good photos when I'm birding, but I feel that a text-only post on the facebook page would not be as interesting. I wonder if anybody else feels the same, and thus posts less (as is true with me), or avoids posting altogether, because of it?<br><br>Kyle Te Poel<br>Stillwater Township</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Mary Reese via Mnbird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px">Yeah, I hate Facebook - it's such a confusing mess and I try to avoid it most of the time. I compare it to shopping at IKEA - once you get inside you don't know where you are, and you can't find the exit! (But I did just sign up with MOU-NET.)<br><div id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12219"><span></span></div><div id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12163">Thanks! <br></div><div class="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528signature" id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12169"><div id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12168"><div id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12167"><div id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12166"><div id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12213" align="left"> </div><div id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12165" align="left"><i id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12174"><font id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12173" size="5" face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif"><font id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12172" color="#cb008e"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12171"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12170"><span style="font-size:16px" id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12179"><span class="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_2_0_2_136263997304254" id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12178">Mary M. 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<div id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12190"><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" title="mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">Jim Ryan via Mnbird</a> </div>
<div id="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yui_3_16_0_1_1496444244890_12194"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 02, 2017 5:53 PM</div>
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<div class="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yiv0819951234gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:large;FONT-FAMILY:garamond,serif">The Minnesota Birding
Facebook page is where the action is. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>
<div class="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yiv0819951234gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:large;FONT-FAMILY:garamond,serif">There is also an MOU list
serv but it's postings are also down in the last few years. <br clear="none"></div></div>
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<div class="m_93139533119137116m_5545589727501804528yiv0819951234gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Mary Reese via Mnbird
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comprehensive Minnesota bird list that I'm missing? This list only has
one or two posts at a time. I would expect 20 or 30.<br clear="none"></span></div>
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