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.