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  • PROW Project Continues
    Bayou Beings | Bayou Life | Other Creatures | Plants

    PROW Project Continues

    Woo wee!  It was W I N D Y on the water yesterday and today!  I’m doing my very best to go back to the way I used to blog–updating you every possible chance I have with a little bit of borrowed time here and there.  I’m trying to be vigilant about taking photos for…

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  • Equal Light and Dark
    Bayou Beings | Plants

    Equal Light and Dark

    Vernal Equinox:  When the sun crosses the plane of Earth’s equator, making night and day, dark and light, of equal lengths all over the planet. Pretty cool. It’s coming. This week.  Whether you’re a purist or you follow the calendar determines whether you recognize this on March 20 or 21 this year, in terms of…

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  • The Limpkin have Landed!
    Bayou Beings | Birds

    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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  • One Extraordinary Spider
    Bayou Beings | Other Creatures

    One Extraordinary Spider

    Dolomedes tenebrosus derives its name from the Greek for “wily” and the Latin for “dark.”  We call this three-inch spider, one of the largest in Louisiana, the dark fishing spider. The conniving arachnid can be found lurking in the swamps, on the trunks of the bald cypress and tupelo gum near the edge of the water,…

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    Alligators | Bayou Beings | Bayou Life

    NO 2017 ALLIGATOR SEASON!

    At least in much of Terrebonne Parish: An official from a major local land company and holder of hundreds of hunting leases in Terrebonne Parish, announced today that due to the rumors that the going price per foot for big alligators is dropping to half of what it was last year. These lease holders/hunters will…

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