[bsg] Fw: eBird Report - Mibermel/ Hwy 1 portions of Natchitoches CBC, Aug 10, 2013
- From: Terry Davis <trdavis22@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Bulletin Board for Dissemination of Information on Louisiana Birds <LABIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "bsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:53:11 -0700 (PDT)
Here's another short trip taken to Mibermel Farms and nearby rookery by Hubert
and I after we left Yates yesterday afternoon. 16 Roseate Spoonbill (with many
adults included) was notable.
Mibermel/ Hwy 1 portions of Natchitoches CBC, Natchitoches, US-LA
Aug 10, 2013 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
Comments: with Terry Davis from Hy 1 s of Powhatan thru Mibermel
Plantation, planted in soybeans this year, to irrigation water holding lake to
east, with rice starting on east side. 93 degrees light s breeze, 20 % clouds,
with highest roseatte spoonbill count yet this fall up here. Rookery still
operating with preponderance of Little Blue Herons, fully feathered, but not
yet fully fledged.
We also checked several bridges on the way home from Yates last week. All
oddball nests except one appeared to be unfinished Cliff Swallow nests. The odd
nest was mostly on top of a sign used as a support under a flat part of the
bridge and bulged out from the support at the outer edge. Overall shape more-so
suggested Barn but mud clumps were heavily and concentrically dabbed more like
Cliff. We checked the bridge at the Powhatan exit on I-49 yesterday afternoon.
Lots of Cliff and very few Barn were only nests found there.
26 species
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 2
Little Blue Heron 156 90 + % juv
Tricolored Heron 4 All seen well were juv
Cattle Egret 40 also juv
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 1 juv, 1 prob 2y nearly in full adult pumage
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 7 Most juv, a few ad. 3 at hwy 1 entrance, 4 at
rookery.
White Ibis 4 2,2 at rookery, ad
Roseate Spoonbill 16 count by ones, in cypress trees, flying and
relocating, about half/half, adult to Juv.
Black Vulture 1
Mississippi Kite 1
Common Gallinule 20 Several ad, but mostly juvenile at various ages.
American Coot 1 ad
Killdeer 12
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Tree Swallow 2
Cliff Swallow 250
Cave Swallow 5 A bird becoming more common in n. La. or are we learning to
scope appropriate groups of cliff swallows for cave swallows in the early fall?
Just before leaving, we grabbed a good position from the S-w so we could scope
some of the fairly distant birds arriving in the tops of the trees. There was a
single tree somewhat away from the largest group tree which contained a few
Cliff, 5 Cave juvenile and 1 Tree. The Cave swallows and Tree Swallow observed
were at the outer edges of the branches near the top of the tree. They were too
far for identifiable photos but undertail covert detail also seen well in the
good light from our viewing angle also proved correct. I took pics from a
closer angle but worse light during our last trip here. After finding the CASW
at Yates, I looked back at those pics closer. All that can be seen well appear
to be Cliff. The numbers of swallows (mostly Cliff) swelled quickly in our last
30 minutes there
yesterday, rising from 12 or so individuals to 250. Someone now needs to check
this roost around 3:30 p.m. or later!!
Carolina Wren 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Red-winged Blackbird 38
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14900081
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
Good birding,
Terry
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