As evidenced by Diane’s blog photos and mine below. Did you know that American bald eagles fly south to inhabit their six-foot wide nests in the fall of the year?  They spruce up their nests, typically the ones they used the year before, breed, lay their eggs, hatch them, teach them to fly and then…

You lookin’ at me?  Well, then, take a picture.  It’ll last longer! Better like this? Or better like this? Okay, enough posing.  I’m outta here.

Why in the world, you might ask, do intelligent people travel hundreds of miles to see these birds as they arrive on the coast of Louisiana? The best reason I can come up with is because it’s their only chance to see as many as 400 bird species in one small geographic location before they…

One bird! Two birds! Red bird! Blue bird! How’s that to whet your appetite? Okay, now I’m going to ask my birding friend Kim to mouse over each one and make sure I have them labeled correctly.  And then, there are about two more good birding posts to come and a couple of birds I…

. . . his beak can hold more than his belly can! He can hold in his beak enough food for a week, But I do wish I knew how the hell he can. I learned this from my daddy when I was a child.  I’m not sure where it originated, but since he was…

or the birds whose space we invaded while fishing this recently. This is a dead-end canal, and the amount of birds in this 100-yard stretch is pretty amazing. This isn’t the best photo ever, but it speaks to the beauty and serenity of this little spot.  This great egret watched us from a distance, and flew from…