June 2013

Coded locations in Louisiana for the following photos may be found on each photo under the date.

Codes for locations are:

BC=Bonnet Carre Spillway
CP=New Orleans, City Park

1
Yellow-crowned Night Heron

2
Tricolored Heron trying to scare up fish

3
Tricolored Heron

4
Close-up of #3 pic--Tricolored Heron

5
Red-winged Blackbird

6
Three Starlings perched on razor wire at the Spillway

7
Immature Black-necked Stilt

8
Juvenile White Pelican

9
Juvenile White Pelican

10
Juvenile White Pelican

11
Tricolored Heron

12
Tricolored Heron

13
Blue-winged Teal pair

14
Male Bronzed Cowbird

15
Male Bronzed Cowbird trying to impress a female Bronzed Cowbird

16
A likely juvenile White-faced Ibis

17
Cattle Egret with an unlucky frog

18
Cattle Egret with frog

19
Boat-tailed Grackle

20
Juvenile Green Heron

21
Juvenile Green Heron

22
Killdeer going through its "broken-wing  act" meaning there is almost certainly a nest or young nearby.

23
Killdeer

24
Killdeer

25
Killdeer

26
Killdeer

27
Female Red-winged Blackbird

28
Cliff Swallow picking up a mud pellet for nest building

29
Cliff Swallows digging up mud pellets

30
Black-necked Stilt

31
Black-necked Stilt

32
Black-necked Stilt

33
Female Red-winged Blackbird

34
Same Red-winged Blackbird close-up

35
Loggerhead Shrike

36
Alligator Gar skull

37
A colony of Cliff Swallows under a highway overpass

38
Cliff Swallows

39
Cliff Swallows

40
Cliff Swallows

41
Cliff Swallows

42
Cliff Swallows

43
Cliff Swallows

44
Cliff Swallow adding mud to the nest

45
Tricolored Heron fishing

46
Tricolored Heron in stealth mode

47
Green Heron

48
Female Boat-tailed Grackle

49
Juvenile White-faced Ibis

50
Close-up of juvenile White-faced Ibis
To view a montage of most of these photos please click
HERE
and find Panel 8.