[bsg] Fwd: [LABIRD-L] Mamou Quad Diversity, Jun 25, 2013 and Early Shorebirds and Branch Quad
- From: Jay V Huner <jvh0660@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bsg <bsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:34:47 -0500 (CDT)
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I thought BSG members who are not on LABIRD might find this report of interest.
Jay Huner
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Subject: [LABIRD-L] Mamou Quad Diversity, Jun 25, 2013 and Early Shorebirds and
Branch Quad
Mamou Quad - I've driven through the Mamou Quad virtually every two weeks for
the past 8 years. I've never had any real reason to bird in the area. But, with
the quad program and the request to work "rice field quads", I decided to get
the quad to 10 hours if at all possible. Of course, I welcome anyone else
birding the quad to make sure that it gets to 10 hours. I do not recall birding
any other quad for roughly 10 hours and getting over 60 birds. The diversity of
habitat ensured that I would have a good day. I can see at least 10 birds
associated with both piney woods and ricefields and crawfish ponds that are
possible. The trouble is that the nice piney woods area with higher elevation
and the lower rice-crawfish area are at opposite ends of the quad! Not sure how
I'll approach working the area when I go back around the 9th of July. The quad
report follows below.
Early Shorebirds - Had 11 Lesser Yellowlegs around 5:30 PM on the 25th in a
very shallow crawfish pond near the intersections of Dusty and Brooks Roads in
St. Landry Parish. Dusty Road runs into LA 751 and Brooks Road runs into LA
358. So, are they returning adult breeders or birds that never went north? If
they reached their nesting grounds in early May and nested immediately, it's
conceivable that they nested and got their young off and into the tundra by
mid-June and started back South.
Branch Quad - I birded basically along LA 98 moving northwesterly from Rayne.
It was difficult to get to riparian regions for songbirds and I never found
crawfish ponds before I turned south to go to Crowley for the Rice Field Day at
the LSU Rice Station at 8:00 AM. I hope someone gets interested in working the
quad and getting it to 10 hours - 2 hours now - because it's almost impossible
for me to get back. I had 34 countable birds and Domestic Mallard. I bet 8 more
serious hours in the quad can get the number to 70-80 birds. Heck, I missed
White Ibis, a slam dunk bird in that sort of habitat!
Jay Huner
> Mamou Quad, Evangeline, US-LA
> Jun 25, 2013 6:55 AM - 12:05 PM
> Protocol: Traveling
> 20.2 mile(s)
> Comments: Birding on NW side of Pine Prairie then south to the east of LA
> 13 to the Vidrine/Reddell area. Really nice potpourri of birds. It was hard
> to keep track of fly over wading birds moving from east to west and back
> commuting to/from the huge rookery at Miller's Lake. The diversity of birds
> reflects the diversity of habitat from the piney woods near Pine Prairie to
> the flat prairie pasture/working wetland habitat in the Vidrine/Reddell area.
> The quad has slightly more than 6 hours and 70 species.
> 63 species
>
> Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 5
> Pied-billed Grebe 5
> Great Blue Heron 4
> Great Egret 25
> Snowy Egret 12
> Little Blue Heron 96
> Tricolored Heron 1
> Cattle Egret 235
> Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
> White Ibis 285
> White-faced Ibis 95
> Roseate Spoonbill 4
> Turkey Vulture 3
> Mississippi Kite 2
> Red-tailed Hawk 1
> Black-necked Stilt 8
> Rock Pigeon 2
> Eurasian Collared-Dove 12
> Mourning Dove 5
> Inca Dove 4
> Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2
> Eastern Screech-Owl 1
> Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
> Red-headed Woodpecker 3
> Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
> Downy Woodpecker 4
> Pileated Woodpecker 3
> Great Crested Flycatcher 1
> Eastern Kingbird 3
> Loggerhead Shrike 6
> White-eyed Vireo 7
> Red-eyed Vireo 1
> Blue Jay 52
> American Crow 42
> Fish Crow 11
> Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
> Purple Martin 62
> Barn Swallow 40
> Carolina Chickadee 2
> Tufted Titmouse 10
> Brown-headed Nuthatch 2
> Carolina Wren 13
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
> Eastern Bluebird 3
> Northern Mockingbird 39
> European Starling 22
> Swainson's Warbler 4
> Kentucky Warbler 1
> Hooded Warbler 1
> Pine Warbler 2
> Yellow-breasted Chat 11
> Eastern Towhee 14
> Summer Tanager 2
> Northern Cardinal 88
> Blue Grosbeak 2
> Indigo Bunting 4
> Painted Bunting 2
> Red-winged Blackbird 50
> Eastern Meadowlark 6
> Common Grackle 40
> Brown-headed Cowbird 8
> Orchard Oriole 3
> House Sparrow 40
>
> View this checklist online at
> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14516718
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (/content/la/)
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