SW Louisiana Birds

A surprise yesterday tucked in among a few thousand ducks, coots, and other waterbirds was this Red-necked Phalarope.  These north...

Mac Myers, Dave Patton, and I joined up with New Orleans maestros David Muth, Curt Sorrells, and Phillip Wallace for a weekend of birding in...

       Yesterday, Mac Myers and I met up with Dave Patton in Cameron Parish.  Birding was pretty good; it was one of those days where everyb...

Yesterday, I took advantage of the cooler weather and took a trip to the coast.  It was a great day, capped off by the evening drive home li...

Aside from a good 3-day soaking, Tropical Storm Lee brought some fun birds to Louisiana last weekend.  The eastern half of Lou...

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...