Rare Bird Alert Monday, 02 November 1998 Baton Rouge Audubon Society Rare Bird Alert Area: Baton Rouge and Louisiana statewide Highlights: CORY'S SHEARWATER * (* Louisiana State Review List) POMARINE JAEGER BUFF-BELLIED HUMMINGBIRD BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD * RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD BULLOCK'S ORIOLE * Others birds mentioned: horned grebe anhinga american white pelican brown pelican ruddy duck american wigeon lesser scaup american bittern black vulture turkey vulture mississippi kite bald eagle northern harrier yellow rail king rail virgina rail sora american coot lesser yellowlegs solitary sandpiper long-billed dowitcher least sandpiper dunlin forster's tern black skimmer eurasian collared-dove white-winged dove inca dove rose-ringed parakeets barn owl ruby-throated hummingbird scissor-tailed flycatcher white-eyed vireo swainson's thrush wood thrush gray catbird golden-crowned kinglet black-throated green warbler pine warbler palm warbler common yellowthroat lincoln's sparrow swamp sparrow white-crowned sparrow field sparrow indigo bunting red-winged blackbird Transcript: Welcome birders to the BRAS' rare bird alert. The following was recorded on Monday November 2. Highlights include an immature male CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD in Metairie and a BULLOCK'S ORIOLE and a BUFF-BELLIED HUMMINGBIRD in LaPlace. I will be out of town from 11/3 to 11/16. Please call Joe Kleiman at 225-751-8716 or Marty Guidry at 225-755-1915 to report sightings or to get more up to date information. Another immature male CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD has shown up at the same feeder in Metairie as the last calliope. This bird arrived on the morning of 11/2. Please call Nancy Newfield at 504-835-7231 to check on his status and arrange a time to visit. The male BULLOCK'S ORIOLE continues at 1409 Glendale in LaPlace in St John the Baptist Parish. The male BUFF-BELLIED HUMMINGBIRD also continues at 800 Fagot Loop in LaPlace and 2 BUFF-BELLIES are in New Orleans. A number of RUFOUS (or at least selasphorus) HUMMINGBIRDS are in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette. And a female BLACK-CHINNED is in St Gabriel in Iberville Parish. Migration reports are still coming in, but I only mention ones that constitute late or early dates, high numbers or are unusual for the locale. Sightings from 11/1: an EURASIAN COLLARED, 7 WHITE-WINGED and 3 INCA DOVES at a feeder in New Iberia in Iberia Parish; a female/immature RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD in Baton Rouge; and a RUBY-THROAT, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, a WOOD THRUSH, 5 GRAY CATBIRDS and 10 INDIGO BUNTINGS in St Gabriel. Sightings from 10/31: a NORTHERN HARRIER, an AMERICAN BITTERN and over 50 SWAMP SPARROWS at Recovery One in New Orleans east; 22 YELLOW RAILS, also KING, VIRGINA and SORA, southwest of Jennings in Jefferson Davis Parish; a SORA and 1700 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS along the Red River in Bossier Parish; and 5 early HORNED GREBES, 3 ANHINGAS, 1370 RUDDY DUCKS, 14156 AMERICAN COOTS, 2 FORSTER'S TERNS, a WHITE-EYED VIREO and 50 PINE WARBLERS on or around Cross Lake in Caddo Parish. Sightings from 10/30: several hundred AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS from the west Atchafalaya protection levee near Charenton in St Mary Parish; and a RUDDY DUCK, 11 AMERICAN WIGEON, 50 LESSER SCAUP, a SOLITARY SANDPIPER, 3 WHITE- WINGED DOVES, 4 BARN OWLS, a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER, a GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, 5 BLACK-THROATED GREEN and 60 PALM WARBLERS, 65 COMMON YELLOWTHROATS, a LINCOLN'S, 120 SWAMP and 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS in Venice in Plaquemines Parish. Sightings from 10/29: over 2000 WHITE PELICANS, 200 BROWN PELICANS, a fair number of WIGEONS, a light phase adult POMARINE JAEGER, 260 BLACK SKIMMERS, a WHITE-CROWNED and 2 FIELD SPARROWS on islands in Baptiste Collette Bayou in Plaquemines Parish; 60 BLACK and 210 TURKEY VULTURES in Venice; and 15 (probably many more) COLLARED-DOVES on Louisiana Avenue in Port Allen with flocks near the corners of Louisiana and Jefferson Street and Louisiana and 4th Street. Sightings from 10/27: a CORY'S SHEARWATER at the Ewing Bank oil platform south of Venice; for the past week 2 adult BALD EAGLES have been stooping on a flock of pintails and other ducks about 8 miles south of Morgan City in St Mary Parish (apparently a bald eagle recovering from a stoop can be quite entertaining); over a 2 hour period, 8 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 350 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 250 LEAST SANDPIPERS and 4 DUNLIN migrating along the Red River in Caddo Parish; and a late MISSISSIPPI KITE was heard in Baton Rouge. Sightings from 10/26: 2 adult BALD EAGLES flying past the French Quarter in New Orleans. And, if you're interested in ROSE-RINGED PARAKEETS, try the wires or palm trees along Robert E Lee between Elysian Fields and Paris in New Orleans. Exit I-610 at either Paris (2C) or Elysian Fields (3) and head north. Robert E Lee is approximately 3-4 major intersections north of the interstate. (My map doesn't seem to have a mileage scale.) Try around dawn or late evening. Thanks for calling the Baton Rouge rare bird alert and good birding. Compiler: Karen Fay Home phone # : 225-763-6805 RBA phone # : 225-768-9874 Email address: lamskite@aol.com RARE BIRD ALERT ARCHIVE