June 2017

Coded locations in Louisiana for the following photos may be found on each photo under the date. BC=Bonnet Carre Spillway JI=Jefferson Island, LA MET=Metairie, LA WE=West End, New Orleans	1 Carolina Wren	2 Male Northern Cardinal	3 Black Swallowtail caterpillar preparing to turn into a chrysalis
4 Same Black Swallowtail caterpillar as #3 now turned into a chrysalis	5 Immature Blue Jay	6 Cattle Egret with a stick for the nest	7 Roseate Spoonbill and Cattle Egret squaring off
8 The Cattle Egret attacks	9 Both are up in the air	10 Cattle Egret has the upper hand	11 Cattle Egret runs the Spoonbill away
12 Cattle Egret with young	13 Cattle Egret with a stick for the nest	14 Cattle Egret	15 Immature Tricolored Heron
16 Little Blue Heron and young	17 Little Blue Heron and young	18 Little Blue Heron and young	19 Little Blue Heron and young
20 Little Blue Heron and young	21 Immature Little Blue Herons	22 Immature Cattle Egrets	23 Immature Cattle Egrets
24 Immature Cattle Egrets	25 Immature Roseate Spoonbill	26 Immature Roseate Spoonbill	27 Roseate Spoonbill
28 Roseate Spoonbill	29 Roseate Spoonbill	30 Roseate Spoonbill	31 Cattle Egret
32 Cattle Egret	33 White Ibis	34 Cattle Egret	35 Cattle Egrets following a tractor that is mowing the grass
36 American Alligator	37 Sunflower	38 Yellow-crowned Night Heron	39 Immature Blue Jay with Assassin Bug
40 Black Vulture	41 Loggerhead shrike	42 Male Needham's Skimmer	43 White Pelican
44 Black-necked Stilt	45 Black-necked Stilt	46 Black-necked Stilt	47 Black-necked Stilt and chick
48 Black-necked Stilt chick	49 Black-necked Stilt chick	50 Black-necked Stilt chick	51 Black-necked Stilt chick
52 Black-necked Stilt chick	53 Black-necked Stilt chicks	54 Black-necked Stilt chick	55 White Ibis
56 Immature White Ibis	57 Roseate Spoonbill	58 Roseate Spoonbill	To view two montages of most of these photos please click HERE and find Panels 8 and 9.