This was a very special day for me on this project because my oldest son accompanied me. Nat, the bird biologist, was out of town at some kind of bird bio conference and the day was much too beautiful to not be out on the water checking the nest-box progress. D.W. was on his “off…
The third week of the PROW project we began to see the start of nests, done by the male PROWs. And it also appeared that the females were starting to arrive in the Lake Palourde area. There weren’t a lot of new and interesting things to see, but I took some shots with you in…
Okay, my Louisiana friends, if you know of a boy or girl in grades 9-12 who might have a memorable fishing trip about which they could write AND of which they have a photo, please share this information with them. Please have them read the rules closely! To inspire them, I’m revealing the prize this…
DAY 3 Week two of the PROW project happened just one week after we cleaned the boxes in preparation for the males to return from Central and South America. And as we checked each of the 30 boxes around Lake Palourde, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the males had already arrived. We detect…
Well, folks, I had every intention of keeping these posts up to the day, but there really aren’t enough hours in the day to get photos uploaded, edited, and into some semblance of a decent post twice a week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I’m whining, but when I started this blog back in 2007,…
Here I was, sitting at my desk doing who knows what when the thought hit me, Man, I sure wish I was doing the PROW nest box monitoring project again this year, but I know the project funding was all used up last year. And then I’m sure my mind wandered back to my emails, or…