BIRD STUDY GROUP Some BSG folks are not on LABIRD and might want to know about the situation in the Cameron area. Remember, even a WEAK front can change the birding situation from one day to the next. Jay Huner ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Jay V Huner <jvh0660@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: LABIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:58:26 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [LABIRD-L] Cameron Report and ACBS-East Jetty, Sep 12, 2013 I hoped to find a few migrants today at Cameron. I would have preferred to have gone over the weekend but simply cannot go to the coast before the end of next week so it was today or no trip. Comments about several locations follow along with a list for Cameron. I went from Gardner to Oakdale to Iowa to Sulphur to Holly Beach/Johnson's Bayou to Cameron to Rutherford/Creole to Cameron Prairie NWR to Sweet Lake to Iowa and home reversing the route. - Peveto Woods - Had the good fortune to bird with Robby Bacon. My list was 22 including sea birds. Robby may have had a couple more birds. We "might" have heard a Morning Warbler. At least the weather was decent and the flies and mosquitos weren't problems. Will be interesting to see lists from those seeking early migrants over the weekend. - East Jetty Area - see ebird report, below. - Rutherford Woods/Beach - I did not stop at these locations. - Rutherford to Creole Road Situation - There is work on the bridge between the two locations. The road was open for travel and the work will likely be completed tomorrow. - Cameron Prairie NWR Pintail Loop - There was no water in the interior impoundment and water along the east side was very low but there were quite a few Blue-winged Teal, Mottled Ducks, waders including Roseate Spoonbills, shorebirds, and gallinules. - Sweetlake Inc. Farm Area/Chalkley and Arceneaux Roads - Fields along Arceneaux Road were flooded and had good numbers of ducks and shorebirds. - Inland Water - The only water I found was at Cameron Prairie NWR, Sweetlake Inc., and Fruge Road near Iowa. Cameron List Fulvous Whistling-Duck Gadwall - Single drake in Cameron Sewage Pond! Wood Duck - Several at Cameron Prairie NWR Mottled Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler American White Pelican Brown Pelican Neotropic Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Turkey Vulture Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Clapper Rail Purple Gallinule Common Gallinule Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Wilson's Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Black-necked Stilt Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Marbled Godwit Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Black Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Black Skimmer Mourning Dove Common Nighthawk Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Eastern Wood-Pewee Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Crested Caracara Loggerhead Shrike Blue Jay Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Northern Mockingbird European Starling Blue Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Baltimore Oriole House Sparrow > ACBS-East Jetty, Cameron, US-LA > Sep 12, 2013 1:10 PM - 2:05 PM > Protocol: Traveling > 1.0 mile(s) > Comments: Audubon beach survey. Tide very low and apparently falling. > Wind SE about 10 MPH. Surf 12-18". Light clouds. Temperature 85+F. Beach rack > - 0.5; human activity - 0.0; cattle activity 0.0. Could see at least 100 > American White Pelicans and a similar number of Brown Pelicans in the > distance on Broussard Beach. Not counted in this survey. It almost appears > that the beach to the east of the park is building. Area between shell berm > off shore at the park and the park is clearly filling in. > 32 species > > Neotropic Cormorant 8 > Brown Pelican 6 > Great Blue Heron 1 > Great Egret 3 > Snowy Egret 3 > Tricolored Heron 1 > Reddish Egret 1 > Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 > White Ibis 1 > Roseate Spoonbill 2 > Black-bellied Plover 11 > Snowy Plover 1 > Wilson's Plover 2 > Semipalmated Plover 18 > Killdeer 1 > Spotted Sandpiper 2 > Willet 9 > Marbled Godwit 2 > Stilt Sandpiper 1 > Sanderling 10 > Least Sandpiper 1 > Semipalmated Sandpiper 25 > Laughing Gull 200 > Ring-billed Gull 1 > Herring Gull 1 > Black Tern 11 > Royal Tern 65 > Sandwich Tern 9 > Black Skimmer 33 > Crested Caracara 1 > Common Grackle 2 > Boat-tailed Grackle 3 > > View this checklist online at > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15158823 > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)