SW Louisiana Birds

I can remember reading all about Caracaras in Lowery's Louisiana bird book when I was a kid.  According to Lowery, Cara...

I spotted a lot of Common Nighthawks, a.k.a. Bullbats, along the coast today.  Judging from the numbers, it would seem that bree...

I could sense fall in the 90 degree air today, so I took a ride down to Cameron Parish to see what was moving.  Once I got down ...

Today Mac Myers and I ran the last of a 12-month series of beach surveys.  It was hot and bright, and there were no big surprises, but there...

It's the season of the Left Behinds on Southwest Louisiana beaches.  By now, just about every bird that spent the winter here should be...

  David Muth, Mac Myers, Dave Patton, Dan Purrington, Curt Sorrells, Phillip Wallace, and I lucked onto this Ladder-backed Woodpecker, a f...

Red-eyed Vireos were abundant to the point of overdose over the weekend in coastal Cameron Parish.  The north wind grounded many...

This tired Gray-cheeked Thrush spent the entire day of May 14 in a little bare patch in back of the camp where I was staying.  ...