May 2018               (Hit F11 to view full frame)

Coded locations for the following photos may be found on each photo under the date.

HOU=Houma, LA
MET=Metairie, LA

1
Immature Cooper's Hawk

2
Immature Cooper's Hawk

3
Immature Cooper's Hawk

4
House Sparrows

5
Snowy Egret

6
Snowy Egret

7
Great Egret

8
Great Egret

9
Red-shouldered Hawk and chicks

10
Red-shouldered Hawk chick

11
Red-shouldered Hawk chick

12
Northern Cardinal pair

13
Common Moorhen

14
Mississippi Kite

15
Lubber grasshopper

16
Indigo Bunting

17
Apple snail eggs

18
Immature Bald Eagle


19
Immature Bald Eagle

20
Bald Eagle

21
Bald Eagle

22
Bald Eagle

23
Black-necked Stilt chick

24
Black-necked Stilt chick

25
Black-necked Stilt chick

26
Black-necked Stilt chick

27
Black-necked Stilt chick

28
Black-necked Stilt chick

29
Black-necked Stilt chick

30
Black-necked Stilt chick

31
Black-necked Stilt

32
Indigo Bunting

33
Indigo Bunting

34
Indigo Bunting

35
Indigo Bunting

36
White-rumped Sandpiper

37
White-rumped Sandpipers

38
Black Swallowtail

39
Female Boat-tailed Grackle

40
Train

41
Train

42
Black Swallowtail caterpillar

43
Black Swallowtail chrysalis

44
Female Spiny-backed Orb Weaver
(the spider makes a number of silk tufts in the web which are thought to prevent birds from flying into and destroying the delicate web)
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and find Panel 6.