Tag: louisiana wildlife
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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein I was looking at a photo I made at the rookery — a spoonbill, full wingspan, carrying nesting material — and something about the shape kept nagging at me. I couldn’t place it. Eventually I did. The Chrysler Crossfire. That long…
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I noticed movement in the water beneath the trees. Something registered immediately — that’s not birds. I picked up my camera to see what it was. It was an alligator, and it was eating something. It took a second to determine that it had an egret. The birds don’t end up above the alligators by…
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“Even half-asleep they had such faith in the world that had made them — tilting through the water, unruffled, sure.” — Mary Oliver, on egrets The Great Egret almost didn’t make it. In the late 1800s, these birds were hunted by the tens of thousands for their breeding plumes — the same long feathers you…