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Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS
This is a small town about 60 miles due east of New Orleans, LA. See the live map at the bottom of the page; click on the "See Larger Map" link to use.
10/16/10
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| Giant Swallowtail caterpillar, about 5 mm long | Chinch Bug, on the tip of an agave leaf. About 1-2 mm long |
10/15/10
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| Chinese Goose | Apparently a Canada Goose-Chinese Goose hybrid | Red Spider Lilies (Lycoris radiata), common wildflowers from Bay St. Louis to Gulfport | Mating Variegated Meadowhawks (Sympetrum corruptum) |
10/13/10
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| Parakeet, maybe an escaped pet | Marlin Miller made sculptures out of dead trees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This is probably one of them. | Red Spider Lilies. They are bulb plants, but apparently can survive as wildflowers, even after the hurricane. |
10/9/9
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| Long-tailed Skipper, wall at St. Stanislaus College, Bay St. Louis, MS, 10/9/09 |
1/11/09
These birds showed up at Cedar Point, a marshy area.
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| Snowy Egret | Snowy Egret | Killdeer | Killdeer in flight | Another Killdeer in flight |
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| This Killdeer flew over to a small clump of rocks off the shore. Great camouflage! | Laughing Gull in non-breeding plumage | Female Bufflehead |
1/9/09
These birds also appeared at Cedar Point.
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| Swamp Sparrow | Horned Grebes | Female Bufflehead | Brown Pelican |
10/7/04
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| I saw this Long-Tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus) on Lantana flowers in downtown Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS, on 10/7/04. It's missing its right "tail." |
9/4/03
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| Female Brackish-water Fiddler (Uca minax) Bay St. Louis, MS, 9/4/03. Thanks to Garrett Herth for ID. | Gulf Fritillary, Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS, 9/3/03. Here's a real survivor taking in minerals from the mud. |
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