Chicot County (September 6 update)

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LaDonna and I had another great day birding Chicot County, yesterday. We mainly birded three particular areas -two private fish farms and the area around Grand Lake. Below is a list of some of the highlight birds we had on the day inlcuding 18 species of shorebird and 14 species of wading birds. The Swallow-tailed Kite was year bird #316.

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck -32
Fulvous Whistling-Duck -4
Piping Plover -1
Black-necked Stilt -1000
American Avocet -7
Willet -2
Least Sandpiper -1000's
Pectoral Sandpiper -1000's
Least Tern -700
Swallow-tailed Kite -1
Peregrine Falcon -1 (juvenile anatum ssp. chasing shorebirds)
Great Egret -1000+
Snowy Egret -1000+
Tricolored Heron -1
Black-crowned Night-Heron -8
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron -1
White Ibis -30
Glossy Ibis -1
White-faced Ibis-15
Plegadis Ibis that were most likely White-faced Ibis -68
Roseate Spoonbill -19
Wood Stork -43
Anhinga -30

Kenny

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Here is a photo of the Swallow-tailed Kite seen last weekend just north of Eudora.

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LaDonna and I birded some of these same areas yesterday plus another location south of Wilmot. The only really new bird was a Red-necked Phalarope. Not a new year bird for me but it was for LaDonna. 

The day's tally. 

American Avocet -12
Black-necked Stilt -500
Red-necked Phalarope -1
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck -4
Wood Stork -100
Triciolored Heron -2
White Ibis -50
Glossy Ibis -1
White-faced Ibis -25
Plegadis Ibis (probably WF) -125
Least Tern -250

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Here is a photo of the Red-necked Phalarope we found last weekend in Chicot County. 

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This is a photo of an immature Tricolored Heron from last weekend.

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LaDonna and I birded Chicot and Ashley counties again today (8-30-13). Highlights below.



Marbled Godwit -5
Roseate Spoonbill -6
Sanderling -1
Willet -1
Plegadis Ibis (most all probably White-faced) -350
Least Tern -500
Black-necked Stilt -500

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LaDonna and I birded Chicot county again today. Highlights below. 

Neotropic Cormorant -1
Roseate Spoonbill -1
Glossy Ibis -10
White-faced Ibis -400
Willet -3
Marbled Godwit -4

kenny

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My son and I birded the Mississippi River levee from the north end of Grand Lake to the Louisiana border. Our highlights were
20 White Ibis and 2 Glossy Ibis.

Additionally, we saw many egrets, herons, cormorants and smaller sandpiper-like birds we could not identify at a distance. Especially beautiful were the hundreds blue winged teal present. It was a marvelous day to be out.