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Subject: Robin roost and other New Orleans
From: "Peter H. Yaukey" <pyaukey(AT)uno.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 2001 8:21am
Dave and LaBird:
On Thursday morning, yesterday, I stood on the UNO levee and watched 1050
robins
flying eastward in 30 minutes. I did not begin until one hour after sunrise
however; I would have thought the robins would have been dispersed by then;
this
is perhaps 2 miles from the roost location Dave described. The birds I saw
moving were generally well south of me, south of Leon C Simon.
Also yesterday, there were 5 Anhingas in the bayou at Couturie Woods in City
Park- a now regular wintering location. A few weeks ago I had 4 Hooded Mergs
in
the canal on the west edge of UNO.
A few weeks ago, I saw 40 Turkey Vultures over Metairie, in flocks of 15 and
25,
both circling, the former just SE of Clearview x I10, the other just SE of
Clearview x Airline. This is by far the largest number of vultures I have seen
within the city proper. There was no overlap in these numbers, as they were
effectively simultaneous observations.
Peter Yaukey
David Muth wrote:
> All:
>
> Last Saturday (1/27) I was driving at dusk from Metairie into New Orleans
> when I looked up at a light and noticed flocks of robins flying eastward, in
> my general direction. I followed them, and found a large roost forming in
> Lakeview one block west of Canal Blvd. and in the two blocks south of
> Harrison Ave. Hundreds, if not thousands were involved, but i could not get
> an accurate count from my vantage, because most had seemingly already
> arrived. Nothing remarkable about the area they picked. The birds were
> perched in everything from large leafless water oaks to dense live oaks, to
> camelias to fences. I could not stay long enough to see if they all
> eventually shifted to some more uniform substrate.
>
> David Muth
> New Orleans
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Subject: Sibley revisions
From: Peggy Siegert <PEGSIEGERT(AT)CS.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 2001 8:53am
Labird,
I found this information on another listserv, thought I'd pass it on.
Sibley has added a list of things 'revised'. The new release in
February will incorporate them. The update listing is here if you
have not seen it:
http://www.sibleyart.com/updates.htm
Peggy Siegert
Slidell, LA
zone 8b
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Subject: BRCBC
From: Carol Foil <lcfoil(AT)ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Date: 2 Feb 2001 5:00pm
Hi all,
We have finally gotten this thing compiled and Joe Kleiman, Dennis Demcheck
and I are pleased to announce our species total was 144 with two new
species for the count list ... Franklin's Gull and Greater White-fronted
Goose, both thanks to Steve Cardiff and crew.
We had an all-time high for individual hummers with 123 ... 6 species.
Thanks to Demcheck, Binford, Davey and Patton for this as well as 50! feeder
watchers who sent in hummer forms. .... and that great whacky HAA
phenomenon that brings us all these wonderful hummers to brighten our winter
days and stoke our CBC fires.
Our feeder watcher total was a new all-time high, I think, with 65 folks
sending in feeder watcher forms that contributed 4 exclusive species to the
count total.
Hurray! This stuff will soon be viewable on line at www.birdsource.org ....
as soon as I am convinced that Laurie is finished tweaking that hummer tally
and I can push the 'data complete' button!
Leaders and participants received a separate emailing, but as I may have old
email addresses for some of you, interested parties who do not receive an
attachemnt summarizing the count can let me know if they would like one.
Carol Foil
Baton Rouge, LA
lcfoil(AT)attglobal.net
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Subject: Re: winter of the sparrow
From: Terry Davis <Trystla(AT)AOL.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 2001 5:01pm
Paul'n'all,
Ditto the explosion of juncos. I am seeing large flocks often in the upland
open pine/oak and orchard-like habitats and neighborhoods. I still say I
thought unususual the low nos. of Fox Sparrows on the BCBCBC when a couple of
weeks before they were everywhere just n. of Shreveport. I saw over 50 in a
short stretch of rd. near Belcher along with 3 Harris Sparrows. Unusually, the
Harris were in a monospecific flock and there were very few White-crowneds
around. Low nos. of FOSP at count time seemed awfullty strange especially with
the major temp drop between those times. Guess they all headed daown saouth
bafore thuh caount!! Btw, Charlie, how did FOSP fare on the Shreveport count?
Terry
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Subject: pine warblers
From: Toddy and Chris Guidry <tcz(AT)IAMERICA.NET>
Date: 2 Feb 2001 5:35pm
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Someone mentioned earlier that they observed cardinals building a nest. =
I'm not sure if this is related to an early spring, but the Pine =
Warblers around my house have been very vocal, singing up a storm the =
last 2-3 days.
Toddy Guidry
Lafayette
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Subject: Re: Lake Martin
From: cecil tarver <exk5hdl(AT)NETSCAPE.NET>
Date: 2 Feb 2001 7:21pm
Russ and all. Look in the morning advocate for today,feb2
Bulletin Board for Dissemination of Information on Louisiana Birds
<LABIRD-L(AT)listserv.lsu.edu> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/31/01 7:16:53 PM Central Standard Time, tcz(AT)IAMERICA.NET
> writes:
>
> << "Closure of rookery at Lake Martin (Lafayette-St. Martin)". Anyone know
> anything about this?
>
> what exactly is the proposal?
> >>
> I saw a notice somewhere about this. The intention is to close it to the
> public during nesting and breeding season.
>
> Russ Allor
>
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CECIL TARVER
LIVINGSTON,LA 20 miles east of baton rouge
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Subject: W.Tanager/Bent series on line
From: Peggy Siegert <PEGSIEGERT(AT)CS.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 2001 8:46pm
Labird,
After being AWOL since 7:30 a.m., Sunday, 1/28/01, the female Western Tanager
was back on the platform feeder eating sunflower seeds most of the afternoon
today. We've been over run with red-winged blackbirds and cowbirds, never
before so many here at one time. Possible that they had something to do with
her disappearance since she had the feeder to herself today. That's the way
she likes it.
I can see no sign that she is in molt, she looks fresh and ready to travel to
me. Tried to get into the _Bent series_ that's now on line at
_Birdzilla.com_ to learn more about w. tanager's migration dates. Couldn't
get in, lots of traffic there tonight.
Peggy Siegert
Slidell, LA
zone 8b
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Subject: Re: Lake Martin
From: "Jay V. Huner" <jjhuner(AT)MINDSPRING.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 2001 9:15pm
Dear Cecil,
The "closure" as I thought was intended to keep PEOPLE out of the
rookery/heronry during the nesting season, not to keep people from
looking in from the periphery. Lake Martin, itself, remains open to
boaters although, I personally would like to see sound ordinances
inacted and air boats keep off the entire unit.
Sincerely, Jay
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From: cecil tarver <exk5hdl(AT)NETSCAPE.NET>
To: LABIRD-L(AT)listserv.lsu.edu <LABIRD-L(AT)listserv.lsu.edu>
Date: February 2, 2001 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: Lake Martin
>Russ and all. Look in the morning advocate for today,feb2
>Bulletin Board for Dissemination of Information on Louisiana
Birds <LABIRD-L(AT)listserv.lsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 1/31/01 7:16:53 PM Central Standard Time,
tcz(AT)IAMERICA.NET
>> writes:
>>
>> << "Closure of rookery at Lake Martin (Lafayette-St. Martin)".
Anyone know
>> anything about this?
>>
>> what exactly is the proposal?
>> >>
>> I saw a notice somewhere about this. The intention is to close it
to the
>> public during nesting and breeding season.
>>
>> Russ Allor
>>
>--
>CECIL TARVER
>LIVINGSTON,LA 20 miles east of baton rouge
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>Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at
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