May 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 BIL=Biloxi, Miss BSL=Bay St. Louis, Miss DES=Destrehan, LA LAP=Laplace, LA MET=Metairie, LA WE=New Orleans West End	1 Barred Owl by Grant Hamer seen near Manchac, LA	2 Reddish Egret	3 Reddish Egret
4 Reddish Egret	5 Reddish Egret	6 Reddish Egret	7 Reddish Egret
8 Reddish Egret	9 Reddish Egret	10 Reddish Egret	11 Great Blue Heron legs
12 Great Blue Heron	13 Laughing Gull	14 Laughing Gulls kissing	15 Laughing gulls kissing
16 Laughing Gulls	17 Laughing Gulls	18 Ruddy Turnstone	19 Ruddy Turnstone
20 Semipalmated Plover	21 Semipalmated Plover	22 Brown Thrasher	23 Black Swallowtail caterpillar
24 Black Swallowtail chrysalis	25 Newly-hatched Black Swallowtail female	26 Alligator (uncropped photo)	27 7-8' Alligator (uncropped photo)
28 Alligator (uncropped photo)	29 Immature Little Blue Heron with a Sailfin Molly	30 Immature Little Blue Heron with crawfish	31 Immature Little Blue Heron with a frog
32 Immature Little Blue Heron fluffing up	33 Immature Little Blue Heron	34 Drake Red-breasted Merganser by Grant Hamer	35 Sunflower
36 Alligator	37 Alligator	38 White Ibis	39 White Ibis and Black-crowned Night Heron
40 Black-crowned Night Heron (notice the crippled toes on the right foot)	41 Black-crowned Night Heron preening	42 Yellow-crowned Night Heron fluffing	43 Yellow-crowned Night Heron striking the water
44 Yellow-crowned Night Heron with a newly-caught crawfish	45 Jane getting a rare handheld close-up (next photo) of a Yellow-crowned Night Heron	46 Yellow-crowned Night Heron	47 Fish Crow
48 Black-necked Stilt	49 West side of the Bonnet Carre Spillway with high water from the Mississippi oozing through the water control structure	50 Green Anole with a dragonfly	51 Cosmos
52 Adult female Needham's Skimmer	53 Close-up of a female Needham's Skimmer	To view two montages of  most of these photos please click HERE and find Panels 6 and 7.