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  | 
		
		
		![]() 1 Female Downy woodpecker  | 
		
		
		![]() 2 Same Downy  | 
		
		
		![]() 3 Yellow-rumped ("Myrtle") warbler  | 
	
		
		![]() 4 American Robin  | 
		
		
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		![]() 10 Red Admiral  | 
		
		
		![]() 11 American Alligator  | 
	
		
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		![]() 18 Black-necked Stilt  | 
		
		
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		![]() 20 Yellow-crowned Night Herons in breeding plumage  | 
		
		
		![]() 21 Preening  | 
		
		
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		![]() 23 Nuzzling  | 
	
		
		![]() 24 Adult Bald Eagle with fish  | 
		
		
		 
		25 Same eagle  | 
		
		
		![]() 26 Juvenile eagle (likely 1st year)  | 
		
		
		![]() 27 Juvenile Little Blue Heron  | 
	
		
		![]() 28 Great Blue Heron  | 
		
		
		![]() 29 Mottled ducks (female with orange bill, male with yellowish bill)  | 
		
		
		![]() 30 Male Boat-tailed Grackle  | 
		
		
		![]() 31 Old church at the Bonnet Carre Spillway  | 
	
		
		![]() 32 American Lady  | 
		
		
		![]() 33 Giant Swallowtail  | 
		
		
		![]() 34 Male Anhinga with a newly-speared mullet  | 
		
		
		![]() 35 Same Anhinga  | 
	
		
		![]() 36 Same Anhinga  | 
		
		
		![]() 37 Same Anhinga  | 
		
		
		![]() 38 Female Anhinga drying out  | 
		
		
		![]() 39 Another female Anhinga  | 
	
		
		![]() 40 Male Anhinga  | 
		
		
		![]() 41 Same Anhinga  | 
		
		
		![]() 42 Male Anhinga  | 
		
		
		![]() 43 Little Blue Heron with a tiny crab  | 
	
		
		![]() 44 Roseate Spoonbills  | 
		
		
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		![]() 48 View looking east from Venice Marina, Venice, LA  | 
		
		
		![]() 49 A similar view east of Venice Marina  | 
		
		
		![]() 50 Female Boat-tailed Grackle  | 
		
		
		![]() 51 Tricolored Heron  | 
	
		
		![]() 52 Yellow-crowned Night Heron  | 
		
		
		![]() 53 Brown Pelican  | 
		
		
		![]() 54 Yellow-crowned Night Heron  | 
		
		
		![]() 55 Temporary flooding on the road in Venice, LA  | 
	
		
		![]() 56 Red-shouldered Hawk seen in Metairie. LA under a brutal sun.  | 
		
		
		![]() 57 American alligator  | 
		
		
		![]() 58 Alligator opening its mouth for temperature control  | 
		
		
		![]() 59 Likely a 3rd year Bald Eagle  | 
	
		
		![]() 60 Same eagle  | 
		
		
		![]() 61 Close-up of same eagle  | 
		
		
		![]() 62 Adult Bald Eagle  | 
		
		
		![]() 63 Same eagle calling  | 
	
		
		![]() 64 Same eagle posturing to an incoming eagle  | 
		
		
		![]() 65 Same eagle  | 
		
		
		![]() 66 "The Headless Eagle"  | 
		
		
		![]() 67 Blue-winged Teal pair  | 
	
		
		![]() 68 Drake BW Teal flapping  | 
		
		
		![]() 69 Hen BW Teal flapping  | 
		
		
		![]() 70 Yellow-crowned Night Heron with a newly-caught crawfish  | 
		
		
		![]() 71 Same heron  | 
	
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		To view two montages of  these photos please click
		HERE  and find Panels 3 and 4.  |