BC=Bonnet Carre Spillway
MET=Metairie, LA
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Immature Cattle Egret
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Immature Cattle Egret
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Immature Cattle Egret
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White Pelican
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Alligator
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Blue Jay
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Downy Woodpecker
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Immature Northern Cardinal
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White Flies
(These are not really flies but are more related to aphids. Like aphids, White Flies suck the juices of plants often causing great damage. Lady Bugs love to eat them.)
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The center of a Zinnia flower.
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Spillway Sunflowers
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Mixed group
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Great Egrets
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Another mixed group
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Great Egrets
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Great Egrets
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Great Egret
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Great Egret
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Great Egret
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Great Egret
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White Ibis
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White Ibis
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Great Blue Heron sunning
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Roseate Spoonbill
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Roseate Spoonbill
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Tricolored Heron
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Tricolored Heron
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Viceroy butterfly
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Viceroy butterfly
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Honeybee
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Eastern Kingbird
on Sesbania (coffeeweed)
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Eastern Kingbird
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Eastern Kingbird
with a male Five Banded Tiphiid wasp
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Eastern Kingbird
with a male Five Banded Tiphiid wasp.
(Male Tiphiid wasps have a non-stinging upturned hook at the end of their abdomens. Only the females have a straight, fully functioning stinger.)
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Eastern Kingbird
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Eastern Kingbird yawning
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Eastern Kingbird
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Eastern Kingbird
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Newly-hatched Gulf Fritillary
of the July and August photos please click
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and find Panel 8.