July 2017
Coded locations in Louisiana for the following photos may be found on
each photo under the date. BC=Bonnet Carre Spillway MET=Metairie, LA |
1 Black-necked Stilt and chicks |
2 Black-necked Stilt chick |
3 Black-necked Stilt chick |
4 Black-necked Stilt and chicks |
5 Black-necked Stilt chicks |
6 Black-necked Stilt chick |
7 Black-necked Stilt chick |
8 Black-necked Stilt and chick |
9 Immature Roseate Spoonbill |
10 Female Red-winged Blackbird |
11 Roseate Spoonbill |
12 Male Red-winged Blackbird |
13 Black-necked Stilt attacking a Great Egret (194 yards) (most likely there are stilt chicks nearby) |
14 Black-necked Stilt attacking a Great Egret (194 yards) |
15 Tricolored Heron |
16 Cattle Egret |
17 Cattle Egret |
18 Painted Bunting artisified |
19 Common Moorhen |
20 Immature Blue Jay |
21 Great Crested Flycatcher |
22 Giant Swallowtail |
23 Long-tailed Skipper |
24 Honeybee about to take off |
25 Female Eastern Pondhawk |
26 Elongated Twig Ant (~1/4" long) with larval prey |
27 Greenhouse Frog |
28 Downy Woodpecker |
29 Green Anole |
30 Elongated Twig Ant |
31 Elongated Twig Ant |
32 Young Wolf Spider |
33 Long-legged Fly |
34 Pill Bug (this is not an insect but a terrestrial crustacean related to shrimp and crawfish) |
35 Paper Wasp |
36 Blue Jay |
37 Northern Mockingbird |
38 Male Blue Dasher oblesking ( pointing his abdomen toward the sun thought to reduce exposure to the sun during hot weather) |
39 Little Blue Heron |
40 Tricolored Herons (adult and rusty-colored immature) |
41 Immature Tricolored Heron trying to scare up fish |
42 Immature Tricolored Heron trying to scare up fish |
43 Immature Tricolored Heron |
44 Adult Tricolored Heron |
45 Tricolored Heron |
46 Tricolored Heron |
47 Tricolored Heron |
48 Tricolored Heron |
49 Tricolored Heron |
50 Tricolored Heron |
51 Male Needham's Skimmer |
52 Female Needham's Skimmer |
To view two montages of most of these photos please
click HERE and find Panels 10 and 11. |