LABIRD-L for Saturday, January 6, 2001

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Time   Cats and raptors   Trond Nilsen    7:47am   No Smith's Longspurs   Melvin Weber    12:01pm   Hummers   Michael Musumeche    4:05pm   Birding in Westen St. Martin Parish, Louisiana 6 January 2001   Jay V. Huner   5:15pm

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Subject: Cats and raptors
From: Trond Nilsen <trond.nilsen(AT)LARVIK.KOMMUNE.NO>
Date: 6 Jan 2001 7:47am

Good people!

Why not curtail the cat debate and pick up another interesting subject:

I feed birds only in winter, when we have snow and food is difficult to
find.
I feed them mainly to help them out, but it doesn`t brake my heart to see a
Northern Gooshawk  make a try for the pigeons or a Sparrowhawk  hunt
Bramblings or Blue Tits at the feeding place.
Raptor-prey scenes is most exciting to me - as I believe it is to most
birders.

Is that making me "...invite to dinner whithout letting them know they are
the food" - as someone postet earlier in this cat debate, or particularly
cynical in my birding behaviour?

Trond
NE Norway


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Subject: No Smith's Longspurs
From: Melvin Weber <mweber(AT)RTCONLINE.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 2001 12:01pm

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We tried for the Smith's Longspurs at the Bonnet Carre Spillway this =
morning without success, however Ronald Stein and I did get Horned Lark, =
Lapland Longspur, Sprague's Pipit, and Grasshopper Sparrow along with =
several Le Conte's Sparrows, a couple of Eagles and an Osprey, so it =
wasn't too bad.

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Subject: Hummers
From: Michael Musumeche <mjmusumeche(AT)COX-INTERNET.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 2001 4:05pm

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LaBirders,

Besides the adult male Black-chinned Hummer that has been using my =
feeders for about two weeks, today (1/6/01) it was joined by a juv. and =
an adult Rufous and an adult male Ruby-throated Hummer. =20

            Mike

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Mike Musumeche
mjmusumeche(AT)cox-internet.com
New Iberia, Louisiana

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Subject: Birding in Westen St. Martin Parish, Louisiana 6 January
         2001
From: "Jay V. Huner" <jjhuner(AT)MINDSPRING.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 2001 5:15pm

Lake Martin, Western St. Martin Parish Near Breaux Bridge, LA
8:30-10:00 AM & UL Lafayette Experimental Farm Near St. Martinville,
LA 2:30-4:00 PM - January 6, 2001 - Jay and Judy Huner.

Cool to Warm, Calm to Light Wind, Clear

Stayed in the Lafayette Area this weekend and made it to the UL
Lafayette Farm after all to end the week. We did not bird "hard" in
either location as is evidenced by the species list.

[Note of Protocol: I am listing UL Lafayette as ULL for convenience,
not out of disrespect. The university is VERY particular about use of
ULL rather than UL Lafayette.]

1.    Pied-billed Grebe - LM-14 & ULL-2
2.    Double-crested Cormorant - LM-45
3.    Ahinga - LM-3+
4.    Great Blue Heron - LM-3 & ULL-3
5.    Great Egret - LM-4 & ULL-4
6.    Snowy Egret - LM-3 & ULL-3
7.    Tricolored Heron - ULL-1 (new species for week)
8.    Cattle Egret - ULL-10
9.    White Ibis - LM-6 & ULL-8
10.  White-faced Ibis - ULL-1
11.  Turkey Vulture - LM-5 & ULL-30+ (Put out a wild pig carcass as a
feeding station!)
12.  Northern Shoveler - LM-6
13.  Sharp-shinned Hawk - LM-1
14.  Red-shouldered Hawk - ULL-1
15.  Red-tailed Hawk - ULL-3
16.  American Kestrel - ULL-1
17.  Common Moorhen - LM-2
18.  American Coot - LM-2,500
19.  Killdeer - LM-20 & ULL-15
20.  Greater Yellowlegs - LM-1
21.  Common Snipe - ULL-1
22.  Mourning Dove - LM-8
23.  Red-bellied Woodpecker - LM-3 & ULL-2
24.  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - LM-1
25.  Northern Flicker - ULL-1
26.  Eastern Phoebe - LM-7 & ULL-5
27.  Loggerhead Shrike - ULL-1
28.  Blue Jay - LM-1 & ULL-3
29.  American Crow - LM-10+ & ULL-150
30.  Fish Crow - ULL-200
31.  Tree Swallow - LM-2 & ULL-1
32.  Carolina Chickadee - LM-2
33.  Tufted Titmouse - LM-2
34.  Carolina Wren - LM-10+ & ULL-1
35.  House Wren - LM-4
36.  Winter Wren - LM-1
37.  Sedge Wren - ULL-1
38.  Ruby-crowned Kinglet - LM-3
39.  Eastern Bluebird - LM-9 & ULL-1
40.  American Robin - LM-25
41.  Northern Mockingbird - LM-8 & ULL-2
42.  European Starling - LM-1
43.  American Pipit - LM-25 & ULL-100
44.  Orange-crowned Warbler - LM-1
45.  Yellow-rumped Warbler - LM-30 & ULL-10
46.  Pine Warbler - LM-3
47.  Common Yellowthroat - LM-1
48.  Savannah Sparrow - ULL-6
49.  Song Sparrow - LM-10
50.  Swamp Sparrow - LM-25
51.  White-throated Sparrow - LM-35
52.  Dark-eyed Junco - LM-2
53.  Red-winged Blackbird - LM-2,000 & ULL-4,000
54.  Common Grackle - LM-25
55.  Brown-headed Cowbird - ULL-300
56.  American Goldfinch - LM-10 & ULL-2