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bayou sauvage, white kitchen, blindingly orange baltimore orioles 2003-04-27 - 4:07 p.m. photo © 2003 Roger Williams, all rights reserved BF and I crawled out of bed at 5:45 A.M. and did a circuit of Irish Bayou, Bayou Sauvage, back to White Kitchen, and a short stop at the boardwalk trail to the Nature Center. It was sunny and not too hot, with birds seemingly singing from every tree. An expert in birdsong identification would have had a field day. Notables: A Painted Bunting male in full adult plumage posed next to a Downy Woodpecker to give us a better idea of the size of this brightly glowing jewel. Two Baltimore Oriole adult males paused in a bare, sunlit tree to give us an eyeful. We discovered a good-sized heronry leaving the Bayou Sauvage area to head to White Kitchen, with mostly white Egret families but a few Little Blue Herons as well. At White Kitchen, I observed an adult male Blackburnian Warbler whose "flaming orange" throat could have passed for red as far as I was concerned. photo © 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved Here's the list: Double-Crested Cormorant Anhinga Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron -- white and blue phases Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-Crowned Night Heron Yellow-Crowned Night Heron White Ibis Wood Duck -- a beautiful male Mottled Duck Blue-Winged Teal Black Vulture Red-Shouldered Hawk Red-Tailed Hawk Common Moorhen Killdeer Laughing Gull Forster's Tern Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl, heard only Barred Owl, heard only Ruby-Throated Hummingbird -- fighting females Red-Bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Yellow-Throated Vireo, heard only Blue Jay American Crow -- if any Fish Crows were present, they didn't say anything, whereas the Americans were fussing most of the time at Bayou Sauvage Northern Rough-Winged Swallow Carolina Chickadee Gray Catbird -- several present Northern Mockingbird European Starling BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, adult male, beautiful Pine Warbler Northern Cardinal Painted Bunting, adult male Red-Winged Blackbird Common Grackle -- a female Northern Cardinal physically attacked a male Common Grackle at White Kitchen, practically leaping on his back in her fury Boat-Tailed Grackle Baltimore Oriole -- two striking, posing adult males Some random images from the day: Carnivorous pitcher plants at an undisclosed location in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana: photo © 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved White waterlilies were in full bloom as far as the eye could see at the White Kitchen site, although the Bald Eagles have finished nesting and seemed to be gone for the year: photo © 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved The huge oak that collapsed at the Nature Center has been successfully moved off the boardwalk: photo © 2003 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved We did all that and still had time to sneak in a lunch at Maccaroni's before the church crowd hit. Back home, I've added Carolina Wren to the day's tally of birds. The Carolina Chickadee family has been feeding outside my window, with some of the birds looking into the nestbox. I still have hopes that they will nest again. Earlier, a Mockingbird chased a Chickadee off the suet feeder, but the Chickadee didn't go far and didn't seem all that impressed by the Mockingbird's display of testosterone. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford