A Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) in flight - nice side view
Cats Can't Read
A drone was deployed one day providing a different view of rice harvesting and rails flushing
Lake Arthur
Franklin's Gull (Larus pipixcan) in flight, view from underneath
Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) in flight
Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)
Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris) - In Flight, Flushed by the combine, common
Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) - late
Dickcissel (Spiza americana)
Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris) - In Flight, Flushed by the combine, common
Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) - up to 3 present
A Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) acts like a shearwater moments before dropping into the rice
A Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) scoots out of the way of the advancing combine
Lake Arthur Sunset
Mermentau river
Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) - Common in the rice fields
Grass used by Pyrrhuloxia
Jennings LA W. H. Tupper General Merchandise Museum
Darner (Anax sp.) photo bombed by a Yellow Rail (C. noveboracensis)
Marceaux Rd.
A Banding Workshop participant sprints to a bird (seen in the lower panel of the mist net) captured during one of the combine passes
A nice shot of the combine making a pass near the mist nets
Sora (Porzana carolina) - in flight flushed by the combine
Sora (Porzana carolina) - skimming the tops of the unharvested rice
Sora (Porzana carolina) - skimming the tops of the unharvested rice