March 2013

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

Codes for locations are:
BC=Bonnet Carre Spillway
BG=Botanical Gardens N.O.
CP=New Orleans City Park
DES=Destrehan
MET=Metairie, LA
NS=New Sarpy
VEN=Venice, LA

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Female Downy woodpecker

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Same Downy

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Yellow-rumped ("Myrtle") warbler

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American Robin

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Red Admiral

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American Alligator

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Black-necked Stilt

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Yellow-crowned Night Herons in breeding plumage

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Preening

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Nuzzling

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Adult Bald Eagle with fish

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Same eagle

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Juvenile eagle (likely 1st year)

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Juvenile Little Blue Heron

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Great Blue Heron

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Mottled ducks (female with orange bill, male with yellowish bill)

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Male Boat-tailed Grackle

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Old church at the Bonnet Carre Spillway

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American Lady

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Giant Swallowtail

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Male Anhinga with a newly-speared mullet

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Same Anhinga

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Same Anhinga

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Same Anhinga

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Female Anhinga drying out

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Another female Anhinga

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Male Anhinga

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Same Anhinga

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Male Anhinga

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Little Blue Heron with a tiny crab

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Roseate Spoonbills

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View looking east from Venice Marina, Venice, LA

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A similar view east of Venice Marina

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Female Boat-tailed Grackle

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Tricolored Heron

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Yellow-crowned Night Heron

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Brown Pelican

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Yellow-crowned Night Heron

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Temporary flooding on the road in Venice, LA

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Red-shouldered Hawk seen in Metairie. LA under a brutal sun.

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American alligator

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Alligator opening its mouth for temperature control

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Likely a 3rd year Bald Eagle

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Same eagle

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Close-up of same eagle

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Adult Bald Eagle

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Same eagle calling

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Same eagle posturing to an incoming eagle

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Same eagle

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"The Headless Eagle"

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Blue-winged Teal pair

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Drake BW Teal flapping

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Hen BW Teal flapping

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Yellow-crowned Night Heron with a newly-caught crawfish

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Same heron
      To view two montages of  these photos please click HERE
and find Panels 3 and 4.