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Grackle vs Anole!
Bayou Beings | Birds | Other Creatures

Grackle vs Anole!

Who won? Can you say L U N C H? (If you love lizards, then this will be too graphic for you, click away now!) Today after I finished the PROW project and while waiting for my swamp tour customers, this happened right next to my boat.  (Click on image to see larger version.) Poor…

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The Limpkin have Landed!
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The Limpkin have Landed!

On the southern end of Lake Houma, which most folks don’t even consider a true lake, runs Hollywood Road, across from which runs a small inland portion of the Intracoastal Waterway, which most folks just call a big drainage ditch.   The marshy edge of Lake Houma and the banks of the Intracoastal along this road…

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Maurepas Swamp, Part 2
Alligators | Bayou Life | Birds

Maurepas Swamp, Part 2

Swamp Things: The Wild Side of Maurepas Swamp Written by Wendy Billiot for Louisiana Wildlife Federation The early morning sun rays streak through the wispy Spanish moss, casting long shimmers of light across the surface of the water.  A prothonotary warbler sings high in the bald cypress while the great blue heron flaps to a…

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Prothonotary Warbler Project – Continued
Bayou Beings | Birds

Prothonotary Warbler Project – Continued

Readers:  Thanks so much for reading the previous article about this project and for expressing your desire to know more about what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. Using a series of photos accumulated thus far over the past six weeks of monitoring the nest boxes, I will give you a more in-depth look and…

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Prothonotary Warbler Project
Bayou Beings | Birds

Prothonotary Warbler Project

The prothonotary warbler derives its name from ancient Catholic scribes who were said to wear bright yellow hoods, which these cute little warblers appear to be wearing.  As opportunistic as they are brilliant yellow, these eastern warblers are just a little bit lazy as well. If they can find a vacated downy woodpecker nest to…

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April-2016-kim-bracelet
Bayou Beings | Birds

Grand Isle Birds & a Giveaway

Dear readers, how I’ve missed you.  I can only hope that you’ve missed me as much and haven’t totally given up on finding a new post here in this century! It was very rough winter for me as far as having more than my fair share of the creeping crud (repeatedly). We’ve heard it over…

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