Date: 4/21/26 4:40 am From: Roselie via groups.io <rosebird49...> Subject: Re: [labird] Cold front birds
Wood Thrush was singing in my backyard. Great-crested Flycatcher and White-eyed Vireo made their FOS appearances, so I went to Bayou Macon WMA in East Carroll Parish I had 6 species of warbler, YB Chat, Indigo Buntings, Summer Tanagers. That’s a fallout for here. 😄 34 species in an hour and a half.
Roselie Overby
> On Apr 20, 2026, at 8:42 PM, Jane Patterson via groups.io <seejanebird...> wrote:
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> I was on Grand Isle from 4/12-4/15 and then again from 4/17 to present.
> Before the cold front / wind shift, the woods were very quiet in the
> morning but picked up every afternoon after 3 or 4 pm. Decent numbers of
> tanagers, grosbeaks, and buntings. Total of 14 species of warbler, all in
> the single digits for any given day.
> After the wind shifted, things got worse! The woods have been quiet
> basically all day. Still a few tanagers, grosbeaks, buntings, but I've
> eked out 15 species of warbler over the 4 day period with only one or two
> of each species.
> I wonder if they're all still stacked up on the Yucatan peninsula!
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> --Jane Patterson
> currently warbler-poor on Grand Isle
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>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 5:42 PM Paul Conover via groups.io <zoiseaux=
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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 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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