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…
What are you playing for? Well, SusieCR has very generously donated her prize BACK to the readers of BW. She can’t redeem it and doesn’t want it to vanish into thin air. I would be less than an honest bayou hostess if I didn’t pass this re-gift on to you, the few, the faithful BW…
you and a friend, or a spouse, or your family were coming to the wetlands of South Louisiana? I would seriously like to know, based on your knowledge of this area or what you’ve learned from this blog, what would you like to do and see while down here for a few days? Would you…
There I was, sitting in a crowded waiting area, when my eyes fell upon the only magazine I would even care to take off the rack: Cabela’s Outfitter Journal, the October issue. I’d never seen the magazine before, and hey, who knows? I might want to write for them. The wait was long enough that…
This is an appeal to all the faithful Bayou Woman readers, and even those lurkers who are always here behind the scenes but never step out into the light of the commenting world: Please tell us what kind of bird this is! My birding expert, using the internet, has now made a positive ID of…
If you drift through a small cut or trainasse or canal quietly, and look closely, you will see myriad smaller, less obvious specimens in our wetlands. There are so many things to see, that you don’t know where to train your eyes . . on the water or in the trees or along the shore?…