Date: 4/20/26 5:26 pm From: Paul Dickson via groups.io <paul...> Subject: Re: [labird] Cold front birds
Paul and Labird:
I was hoping for a day-after the cold front shorebird stopover event and went to the rice fields and moist soil managed area of RRNWR, the “Yates” tract between Shreveport and Coushatta. With north winds what I found were indeed the long distance migrants but not a whole lot more of them than others found before the.front at the same place. 3 Baird’s Sandpipers were new and nice especially when I was watching them from only 15 yards away and they squatted into the shallow water and seconds later burst up with a sharp call as a Peregrine shot by over my shoulder and chased after them and an America Golden Plover. Otherwise there were plentiful numbers of the expected shorebirds. A Blue Grosbeak was a new arrival. One Pectoral Sandpiper of a total of at least 250, probably more, was half white in feather groups, his wing, crown, an eyeline being usually colored and the remainer of his plumage pure white. The Pects were hiding in shallow water and old rice stubble in groups of 20-30, out of sight until I passed close enough walking down a rice levee to flush them. The sun was bright at 3-4PM and the Peregrine too probably had them acting that way. It was not a mass migration stopver but a nice day of shorebirds none the less.
Paul Dickson
Red River Parish
https://ebird.org/checklist/S324412701
From: <labird...> <labird...> On Behalf Of Paul Conover via groups.io
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2026 5:43 PM
To: <labird...>
Subject: [labird] Cold front birds
Labird, I'm curious about birding results from different areas tied to the weekend weather. Birding at Willow Island was pretty good yesterday, with good numbers of quite a few species. List at https://ebird.org/checklist/S324151398<https://ebird.org/checklist/S324151398> I'm seeing a bit of the same in my backyard today, with Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Wood Thrush, and Swainson's Thrush.Paul Conover Lafayette
