SW Louisiana Birds

Birding yesterday in Cameron Parish was pretty nice, even with the temperature in the mid-90s.  A north wind was blowing, and there was a go...

I didn't want to post a picture of any of the kingbirds from Cameron here because I don't know which one was doing the calling.  In...

Another neat bird from yesterday was this Burrowing Owl that was holding steady on the debris line of Holly Beach.  I'm not ...

  Yesterday, after crossing into Cameron on the ferry, I saw a lump in the road ahead of me.  As I rolled past it and looked back, I thoug...

The Willet, although incredibly abundant and widespread, is still in many ways a mysterious bird.  Although it's been kno...

For the past few weeks, I've been seeing giant soaring birds flying over I-10 every time I drive through the Crowley area.  ...

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...