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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:12:26 -0600
Reply-To: Bulletin Board for Dissemination of Information on Louisiana Birds
Sender: Bulletin Board for Dissemination of Information on Louisiana Birds
From: Wallap
Subject: [LABIRD-L] Fork-tailed Flycatcher
To: LABIRD-L@LISTSERV.LSU.EDU
Labirders,
This afternoon about 4:40 David Muth and I found a Fork-tailed Flycatcher in Plaquemines Parish. The bird was initially found in a bare pecan tree in a yard about a half-mile or so downriver from the Conoco-Phillips oil refinery at Alliance. The house where the bird was found is on the opposite side of Hwy. 23 from the refinery. It is a large white house with a green roof set back from the hwy. The address of the house is 16096. The homeowner gave birders permission to view the bird from the side of the road but asked that birders not walk into the yard or onto his property.
The bird was in the company of a Scissor-tailed FC and 15 Western Kingbirds. The bird was very faithful to the pecan trees in the yard, but toward the end of the day it and the kingbirds perched on the power lines next to the citrus orchard just downriver from the yard where it was first seen. At 5:48 the Fork-tailed FC, Scissor-tailed FC, and all of the kingbirds went to roost in a citrus tree about 20 yards in from the power line on the west side of Hwy 23. The fact that the birds all went to roost together may bode well for the Fork-tail staying around.
I warned the home owner that quite a few people might want to see the bird. He didn't have any problem with that, but please respect his request not to go onto his property and please do not block his driveways. Also be advised that Hwy 23 is a very busy and sometimes dangerous hwy, so be careful.
The bird was in the Phoenix quad, so we did a stationary census for a little over an hour.
Other good birds for the day (Lake Laurier, Port Sulphur, and Pointe a la Hache quads) included N. Parula, Black-throated Green, Prairie, Northern Waterthrush, and Yellow-throated Warbler.
I'll post complete results later.
Good Birding,
Phillip Wallace
New Orleans
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