Our Indigo Bunting, first spotted by Larry, is also getting quite late-
according to the flagging. (:
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Terry Davis <terkchip@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all, Larry Raymond and I had relatively low diversity but there was
quite a few birds active during our visit to headquarters today. It was
also great to see 30+ monarch within a small e/w area along the chocolate
trail. They were nectaring from a low, bright yellow and gaudily-flowering
composite. We put a little work into it today- nearly 0.3 miles of the
central portion of the chocolate trail was over ankle to mostly near
knee-deep in water. The trees were leaning/toppled and our path displaced
and hard to see from the lingering and recent addition to the floodwaters-
but we trudged right on through the log jams and dense, matted weeds.
The best bird notes were 1 Northern Waterthrush (prob 2), 5 Sharp-shinned
Hawk, hatch-year fem Black-throated Green Wa, White-eyed Vireo, flyby
calling Pine Siskin and 2 Gray Catbird. Small land birds were in really
good numbers. Water birding was again slow. Here's our list with embedded
recordings of calls of the (again, probably the second one) N Waterthrush.
So far as I know, this is close to, if not a late date for N Waterthrush
for nw La.
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S25727849
Good birding,
Terry
