
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