Date: 4/20/26 6:39 pm From: Wendy Rihner via groups.io <wrihner...> Subject: Re: [labird] Cold front birds
Paul:
A few of us were in Couterie Woods in City Park in New Orleans, and it
almost felt like we were birding decades ago. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were
quite numerous, and we had 14 species of warblers, including Prairiie. It
was a birdy day.
Wendy Rihner
On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 7:26 PM Paul Dickson via groups.io <paul=
<morrisdickson.com...> wrote:
> 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 >
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> 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
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> 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
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