Date: 4/21/26 10:03 am From: Melissa Weaver via groups.io <mdodson22...> Subject: Re: [labird] Cold front birds
Charlie and I started Sat early evening at Willow Island where we had 18 Orchard, 10 Baltimore and 20+ Catbird. At one point, we just watched a bush fill up with lovely gray birds coming in one after the other. Sunday morning was fantastic! We had a mini fallout in downtown Cameron. We were driving around the blocks when it began to rain Summer Tanagers in one tree behind an abandoned house. We took our chances and parked in a lot and had 17 Swainsons, 11 Wood Thrush, 3 Ovenbirds, and close to 20 Hooded Warblers land at our feet. The Summer Tanager total count was 61 and that was probably conservative. Baltimore count was 12 and Orchard was 5. I started my birding adventure a little less than 10 years ago, so I have only witnessed this twice in my lifetime. It is hard for me to comprehend the changes that Charlie describes about how it used to be and that what we witnessed was incredible, but only a small pocket of what used to be widespread. A little later we attempted to board the ferry to go to Peveto, but we received the same message as Mac, “broke”. We turned around and headed back to Willow Island and had a Swallow-tailed Kite follow us for a few minutes down the highway. We had a good turnout of birds as Paul described, but what I enjoyed the most was the 40+ Indigo Buntings in one brushy area. Beautiful little blue guys everywhere! It was a fantastic 24 hours.
On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 6:40 AM, Roselie via groups.io <rosebird49...> wrote:
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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