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…
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…
Boating into the Mandalay Wildlife Refuge and cypress areas around Lake Palourde never, ever gets old to me. I’m like a child with a shiny new bicycle on my birthday each time I ride into these magical, mystical waters. Always amazed, enthralled, intrigued, and mystified by what I see. Since I’m also “working” the PROW…
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…
PROW from here forward stands for PROthonotary Warbler, the monitoring of which will be ongoing from now until the end of July. Last week, we cleared the nest boxes of red wasp nests, dirt dauber nests, spiders but left the tree frogs, figuring they’d move out on their own once the males start nest building. …
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…