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Subject: Backyard Bird Count and The Sunday Advocate
From: "Jay V. Huner" <jjhuner(AT)MINDSPRING.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 7:47am
Good Morning,
Really enjoyed opening up the back page of The Sunday Advocate and
finding a full page spread about The Backyard Bird Count. Joe Macaluso
is doing a great job getting the "hooks and bullets" crowd interested
in birding.
I am looking forward to tommorrow or Tuesday when "theadvocate.com"
will put the photo in the article "on line" so that I can have a
better opportunity to confirm the identity of the two bird species in
the photo, tentatively identified as "Yellow-headed Blackbird" and
"Rusty Blackbird".
Good Birding - Jay Huner
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Subject: Re: Backyard Bird Count and The Sunday Advocate
From: Michael Musumeche <mjmusumeche(AT)COX-INTERNET.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 8:15am
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Jay,
The birds in the Advocate article are male and female Boat-tailed =
Grackles. With so many birders in BR, Joe should have contacted at =
least one of them for ID, and not merely speculated as to their ID.
Mike
**********************************************
Mike Musumeche
mjmusumeche(AT)cox-internet.com
New Iberia, Louisiana
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From: Jay V. Huner=20
To: LABIRD-L(AT)listserv.lsu.edu=20
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 5:41 AM
Subject: Backyard Bird Count and The Sunday Advocate
Good Morning,
Really enjoyed opening up the back page of The Sunday Advocate and
finding a full page spread about The Backyard Bird Count. Joe Macaluso
is doing a great job getting the "hooks and bullets" crowd interested
in birding.
I am looking forward to tommorrow or Tuesday when "theadvocate.com"
will put the photo in the article "on line" so that I can have a
better opportunity to confirm the identity of the two bird species in
the photo, tentatively identified as "Yellow-headed Blackbird" and
"Rusty Blackbird".
Good Birding - Jay Huner
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Subject: apology
From: Michael Musumeche <mjmusumeche(AT)COX-INTERNET.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 8:17am
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Sorry I sent a private note to the entire list-serv.
Mike
**********************************************
Mike Musumeche
mjmusumeche(AT)cox-internet.com
New Iberia, Louisiana
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Subject: Re: Backyard Bird Count and The Sunday Advocate
From: Bill Wood <labirder(AT)SHREVE.NET>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 8:34am
Mike, LaBirders and all,
I just read the article that Jay mentioned and see no reference of
Yellow-headed or Rusty Blackbird in the article or in the photo captions by
Joe Macaluso . Apparently, Jay comments, "tentatively identified as
"Yellow-headed Blackbird" and "Rusty Blackbird", were his own and not Joe
Macaluso's. The article is online at:
http://www.theadvocate.com/outdoors/story.asp?StoryID=937 .
Bill Wood
Keithville, LA
.
At 10:16 AM 2/11/2001, you wrote:
>Jay,
>
>The birds in the Advocate article are male and female Boat-tailed
>Grackles. With so many birders in BR, Joe should have contacted at least
>one of them for ID, and not merely speculated as to their ID.
>
> Mike
>**********************************************
>Mike Musumeche
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Subject: Request for New Orleans birders
From: "Michael A. Seymour" <caprimulgus(AT)EARTHLINK.NET>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 10:01am
Hey folks,
I received this e-mail last night regarding a visiting birder. I'm not
especially familiar with birding spots in New Orleans during the winter
(didn't want to immediately suggest driving to the coast).
Could one of you nice folks please respond? I would greatly appreciate
it.
Thanks and good birding.
-Michael Seymour
BR, LA
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From: "Ervin and/or Lois Rockhill" <rockhill(AT)indy.net>
To: <caprimulgus(AT)earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:35 PM
Subject: New Orleans
> Hello. I am Lois Rockhill from Indiana and am planning to be in New
Orleans
> for a Second Harvest Food Bank conference this coming week. I wonder if
you
> could give me a name, email address of someone in the area who could
advise
> me about the birding possibilities? I will have Tues afternoon and Weds
to
> see things before the conference starts. I'm staying downtown near the
> French Quarter.
> Thanks!
>
>
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Subject: Re: Backyard Bird Count and The Sunday Advocate
From: "Michael A. Seymour" <caprimulgus(AT)EARTHLINK.NET>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 10:18am
Hey folks,
A little out of character for me, but, actually, the *hardcopy* of
today's paper does grossly misidentify the birds. They are indeed
Boat-taileds.
This reminded me of another article that I'm fairly certain Macaluso
wrote a year or so ago. The article was a nice write-up of Cameron Prairie
NWR. Included was a short list of "commonly seen" species (maybe 30 or so,
seemingly randomly chosen birds) on the refuge. I would like to emphasize
"COMMON." Included in the list were two birds I would kill to see
(metaphorically, of course) in the wild in LA -- N. Goshawk and Scarlet
Ibis. There were others, too, like Am. Oystercatcher which, undoubtedly, is
not very common on the refuge.
Can't get the best of both worlds when it comes to outdoor writing, I
suppose.
-Michael Seymour
BR, LA
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From: "Bill Wood" <labirder(AT)SHREVE.NET>
To: <LABIRD-L(AT)listserv.lsu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: Backyard Bird Count and The Sunday Advocate
> Mike, LaBirders and all,
>
> I just read the article that Jay mentioned and see no reference of
> Yellow-headed or Rusty Blackbird in the article or in the photo captions
by
> Joe Macaluso . Apparently, Jay comments, "tentatively identified as
> "Yellow-headed Blackbird" and "Rusty Blackbird", were his own and not Joe
> Macaluso's. The article is online at:
>
> http://www.theadvocate.com/outdoors/story.asp?StoryID=937 .
>
>
> Bill Wood
> Keithville, LA
> .
>
> At 10:16 AM 2/11/2001, you wrote:
> >Jay,
> >
> >The birds in the Advocate article are male and female Boat-tailed
> >Grackles. With so many birders in BR, Joe should have contacted at least
> >one of them for ID, and not merely speculated as to their ID.
> >
> > Mike
> >**********************************************
> >Mike Musumeche
>
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Subject: Sandhills, again
From: Roselie Overby <rosebird(AT)BAYOU.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 11:13am
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A small flock of sandhill cranes just landed in the field across the =
road. Are they on a 7 day cycle, or do they go there everyday when I'm =
not home?
Roselie Overby
Oak Grove in W. Carroll Parish
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Subject: Re: Backyard Bird Count and The Sunday Advocate
From: Bill Wood <labirder(AT)SHREVE.NET>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 11:29am
Michael, LaBirders and all,
Thanks for the clarification. Apparently the hard copy didn't have the
same captions as the online version. My apologies to all.
At 10:21 AM 2/11/2001, Michael Seymour wrote:
>Hey folks,
> A little out of character for me, but, actually, the *hardcopy* of
>today's paper does grossly misidentify the birds. They are indeed
>Boat-taileds.
As always, Good Birding,
Bill Wood
Keithville, LA
3 miles south of Shreveport
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Subject: Re: Backyard Bird Count and The Sunday Advocate
From: Paul Conover <conover(AT)TALSTAR.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 12:58pm
> Can't get the best of both worlds when it comes to outdoor writing, I
> suppose.
> -Michael Seymour
michael, labird,
maybe not, but misidentifications aside, no publicity is bad publicity.
it's good to see new audiences being aimed at.
paul conover
tallahassee, fl
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Subject: Re: Backyard Bird Count and The Sunday Advocate
From: "Maurice Duvic Sr." <jsb8(AT)WEBTV.NET>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 2:38pm
Those readers able to recognize the misidentification already are
interested in birding.
We should thank the columnist and the editor and confine the
"identification question" to ourselves - if we wish.
Vic
Jackson, MS 392ll
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Subject: Day Trip Birds - Lake Fausse Point State Park - Western St.
Martin Parish, Louisiana, Feb. 11, 2001 AND Martins in St.
Martinville
From: "Jay V. Huner" <jjhuner(AT)MINDSPRING.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 5:48pm
Day Trip from Lafayette, LA through St. Martinville, LA and Coteau
Holmes, LA to Lake Fausse Point State Park in Western St. Martin
Parish, Louisiana with return through Catahoula, LA and St.
Martinville, LA - Jay and Judy Huner, Feb. 11, 2001.
Lake Fausse Point State Park is located adjacent to the west side of
the main west guide levee of the Atchafalaya Basin. We arrived around
10:30 AM and left about 12:30 PM after walking the 1.6 mile "Blue"
Trail. Weather was mild and calm. The sky was cloudy to partly cloudy.
I am listing with numbers the birds at the park and simply listing
other birds seen along the way recalling that every trip begins and
ends at home.
1. Double-crested Cormorant - 3
2. Great Blue Heron - 2
3. Great Egret - 5
4. Snowy Egret - 2
5. Killdeer - 20
6. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 8
7. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
8. Downy Woodpecker - 1
9. Pileated Woodpecker - 1
10. Eastern Phoebe - 4
11. White-eyed Vireo - 1
12. Blue-headed Vireo - 1
13. American Crow - 4
14. Fish Crow - 15
15. Tree Swallow - 10
16. Carolina Chickadee - 15
17. Carolina Wren - 3
18. House Wren - 1
19. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12
20. Eastern Bluebird - 2
21. American Robin - 75
22. Gray Catbird - 1
23. Northern Mockingbird - 6
24. Brown Thrasher - 2
25. American Pipit - 10
26. Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
27. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 100+ (ALL OVER THE PLACE)
28. Pine Warbler - 1
29. Ovenbird - 1 [Don't know if this requires a 3x5 card. Lowery says
that Ovenbird is occasionally found in Louisiana in February. He
reports that colleague M. J. Musumeche collected 5 near Henderson in
St. Martin Parish on 16 Feb. some years ago. The bird was feeding on
the ground near a large brush pile. I saw it go into the pile and
assumed it was a sparrow or wren. It popped out to look at me and its
bright reddish brown crown and dark spotted white breast stood out
conspicuously.]
30. Swamp Sparrow - 4
31. White-throated Sparrow - 7
32. Northern Cardinal - 20+
33. Red-winged Blackbird - 100+
34. Brewer's Blackbird - 1
35. Brown-headed Blackbird - 1
36. Turkey Vulture
37. Wood Duck - Crawfish Ponds
38. Blue-winged Teal - Crawfish Ponds
39. American Kestrel
40. Ring-billed Gull - Crawfish Ponds
41. Forster's Tern - Bayou Benoit Landing
42. American Coot - Crawfish Ponds
43. Blue Jay
44. Purple Martin - At least 5 soaring over the Cathedral in the
center of St. Martinville around 1 PM.
45. European Starling
46. Cedar Waxwing - a single bird near Coteau Holmes
47. American Goldfinch - a few birds at my feeder in Lafayette
48. House Sparrow
I did not see the first Buteo Hawk. This contrasts with last Sunday's
trip westward to Creole and back through Abbeville where Red-tailed
Hawks were really never out of sight.
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Subject: UL Lafayette Experimental Farm Birds - Week of Feb. 4, 2001
- Western St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
From: "Jay V. Huner" <jjhuner(AT)MINDSPRING.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 6:36pm
UL Lafayette Experimental Farm - Mostly Crawfish Ponds and Wooded
Wetland Woodlot - Week of Feb. 4, 2001 - Western St. Martin Parish,
Louisiana.
I did not bird on Wed. 7 Feb. as I was off the Farm that day. The Bald
Eagle reported below was picked up by Aquaculture Technician W. J.
Bernard III on Sunday 4 Feb. Mr. Bernard lives on the Farm. Mike
Musumeche and I hosted an Tulane University ecology class led by
Master Birder Dr. Tom Sherry Saturday, 10 Feb., morning.
Weather ranged from basically cool to warm from Monday through Friday
turning terribly cold Saturday after passage of a cold front with
heavy rain on Friday afternoon.
1. Pied-billed Grebe - M-25, Tu-20, Th-3, F-12, & Sat.-5
2. Double-crested Cormorant - M-2, Tu-1, F-2, & Sat.-3
3. Neotropic Cormorant - Tu-1
4. Great Blue Heron - M-2, tu-1, Th-2, F-1, & Sat.-1
5. Great Egret - M-3, Tu-3, Th-2, F-3, & Sat.-3
6. Snowy Egret - M-2, Tu-3, Th-4, F-2, & Sat.-3
7. Little Blue Heron - Th-1
8. Tricolored Heron - M-1, Tu-1, Th-1, & F-1
9. Cattle Egret - F-20 [Birds apparently fly over around 6:45 AM
and return around 5:00 PM meaning that I miss them most days.]
10. White Ibis - M-20, Tu-22, Th-15, F-6, & Sat.-15
11. White-faced Ibis - M-60, Tu-65, Th-20, F-25, & Sat.-30
12. Wood Duck - M-8, Tu-8, & Th-3
13. Mallard - M-2 & Tu-2
14. Blue-winged Teal - M-75 & Tu-50
15. Northern Shoveler - M-15, Tu-8, Th-12, F-8, & Sat.-5
16. Gadwall - M-30, Tu-30, Th-25, F-12 & Sat-3
17. American Wigeon - M-15
18. Ring-necked Duck - M-60, Tu-1,200, Th-1, & F-3
19. Hooded Merganser - M-2
20. Turkey Vulture - M-1, Tu-2, F-1, & Sat.-2
21. Bald Eagle - Sun.-1 [Bird 239 for Farm List.]
22. Northern Harrier - M-1, Tu-1, & F-1
23. Red-shouldered Hawk - M-2 & Th-1
24. Red-tailed Hawk - M-2, Tu-1, F-1 & Sat.-2
25. American Kestrel - M-1, Th-1, F-1, & Sat.-1
26. Sora - Tu-1
27. American Coot - M-110, Tu-110, Th-110, F-120, & Sat.-120
28. Killdeer - M-20, Tu-5, Th-2, F-5, & Sat. 30
29. Greater Yellowlegs - M-1
30. Laughing Gull - M-2,
31. Bonaparte's Gull - F-1
32. Ring-billed Gull - M-20, Tu-10, th-6, F-8, & Sat.-10
33. Forster's Tern - M-1 & F-3
34. Mourning Dove - Sat.-1 [First in a LONG time.]
35. Belted Kingfisher - M-1, Tu-1, Th-1, F-1, & Sat.-1
36. Red-bellied Woodpecker - M-2, Tu-1, Th-2, F-1, & Sat.-5
37. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Tu-1 & Sat.-1
38. Downy Woodpecker - M-1 & Sat.-3
39. Eastern Phoebe - M-3, Tu-3, Th-1, F-1, & Sat.-3
40. Blue Jay - M-3, Tu-4, Th-2, F-1, & Sat.-5
41. American Crow - M-30, Tu-10, Th-20, F-25, & Sat. 15
42. Fish Crow - M-60, Tu-30, Th-10, F-30, & Sat.-10
43. Carolina Chickadee - Th-4, F-2, & Sat.-6
44. Tufted Titmouse - M-3, Th-2, & Sat.-6
45. Carolina Wren - M-3, Tu-2, Th-1, F-3, & Sat.-5
46. House Wren - M-1, Tu-1, & F-1
47. Sedge Wren - M-1 & Tu-1
48. Marsh Wren - M-2 & Th-2
49. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - M-2, F-1, & Sat.-5
50. Eastern Bluebird - Tu-2, F-1, & Sat. 3
51. American Robin - M-3, Tu-3, F-2, & Sat.-20
52. Northern Mockingbird - M-2, Tu-2, Th-1, F-1, & Sat.-3
53. American Pipit - Tu-10, Th-3, & F-2
54. Loggerhead Shrike - M-4, Tu-2, Th-1, F-3, & Sat.-3
55. European Starling - M-3, Tu-15, Th-2, F-1, & Sat.-10
56. Blue-headed Vireo - Sat.-1
57. Orange-crowned Warbler - F-1
58. Yellow-rumped Warbler - M-15, Tu-20, Th-10, F-15, & Sat.-20
59. Common Yellowthroat - M-2 & Tu-3
60. Northern Cardinal - M-6, Tu-3, Th-3, & Sat. 6 [Hard to Find.]
61. Field Sparrow - F-1
62. Savannah Sparrow - M-10, Tu-15, Th-25, F-10 & Sat.-75
63. Song Sparrow - M-20, Tu-15, Th-15, F-6, & Sat.-5
64. Swamp Sparrow - M-20, Tu-15, Th-10, F-4, & Sat.-10
65. White-throated Sparrow - Tu-2, Th-2, F-3, & Sat.-15
66. Red-winged Blackbird - M-500, Tu-500, Th-200, F-200, & Sat.-500
67. Eastern Meadowlark - Tu-4, F-2, & Sat.-15
68. Brewer's Blackbird - Tu-1
69. Boat-tailed Grackle - M-1
70. Brown-headed Cowbird - M-5, Tu-20, & Sat.-100
71. American Goldfinch - M-2 & Tu-2
72. House Sparrow - Sat.-30 [Farm Shop - Always There.]
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Subject: 1st Annual Southwest Louisiana Migration Sensation - 12-14
April 2001
From: "Jay V. Huner" <jjhuner(AT)MINDSPRING.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 6:46pm
I picked up a flyer for the 1st Annual Southwest Louisiana Migration
Sensation at Wildbirds Unlimited in Lafayette yesterday. Dates are
12-14 April with headquarters in Lake Aurthur, Louisiana.
The 800 number is 800-264-5521.
The WebSite is www.jeff.org/ "I think".
The flyer includes a checklist for spring migration. There are field
trips to Holleyman-Sheely Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Lacassine National
Wildife Refuge, Lake & River Curises, and a Woodland & Swamp Tour on
April 13. Tours go from early morning to "noonish". There are seminars
on Backyard Habitat by Jack Must at 2 PM and Hummingbirds by Nancy
Newfield at 3:15 PM on the 13th. The field trips are repeated on
Saturday 14 April. The afternoon seminars are Birds of the Area by
Bill Vermillion at 2 PM and Backyard Habitat by Jimmy Ernest at 3:15
PM.
The seminars cost $5 and the field trips run from $15 to $35. I canot
find any general registration charge.
The project seems to be associated with "Friends of Lacassine National
Wildlife Refuge".
This certainly seems to be a good effort that should be supported for
those who can avail themselves of it with relatively short notice.
Sincerely,
Jay Huner
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Subject: Bullock's Oriole
From: Mark Swan <markruthswan(AT)EARTHLINK.NET>
Date: 11 Feb 2001 9:59pm
LABIRDERS,
Today, Sunday, 11 Jan 2001 I squeaked up a
1st winter male Bullock's Oriole at the edge
of The Nature Conservancy's Cypress Island
Nature Preserve at Lake Martin in St. Martin
Parish around 3 PM. The bird chattered and
came out a second time so that I could show
Ruth as well. I sent David L'Hoste a video
mosaic with an aerial photograph of the
location, in case he can make them available
at www.losbird.org. I marked the location
on the photo with a red circle. The UTM
coordinates (nad83) of the location is
604170, 3343500 - in case you use a GPS unit.
Van, is that a first for LABIRD?
The bird is dull orange, has a black chin,
jagged edges to the upper white wingbar,
and an orangish eyestripe that contrasts
with a dark gray crown and eyeline. It's
loud chatter call sounds just like that of
the Baltimore Oriole that I had in my yard
in December. The Bullock's called only in
response to my squeaking.
To visit the bird's location, walk exactly
1.5 miles N and NW of the gate at the south
end of the lake. Ruth reminds that you can
also walk about 1 1/4 miles from the N parking
area. To mark the place I hung 2 short pink
strips of flagging on a lower branche of a
hackberry sapling growing in the east edge of
the levee path. If you are coming from the
south and reach the big TNC sign, you've
walked about 700-800 feet too far. The bird
stayed in the woods on the east side of the
levee and didn't remain in view for long.
Lake Martin can be reached by driving 2 miles
SE of Breaux Bridge along Rt. 31. Turn right
onto Lake Martin Rd. At the lake turn left
and drive almost to the paved road (Rt. 353).
The gate is there. I recommend exiting (and
perhaps arriving) on Rt. 353, which runs 5
miles ESE from Lafayette to the gate area.
Thanks to Texaco for donating the land to TNC.
Thanks to Jay Huner for all those emails that
final encouraged me to walk around the entire
lake (5 miles) I also noticed about 8 Winter
Wrens, 2 groups (4-5 birds) of Rusty Blackbirds,
very few RC Kinglets, and no gnatcatchers.
That's 191 Charlie. (377 for LA)
Mark Swan
Baton Rouge
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