Field and Swamp: Animals and Their Habitats |
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Bay St. Louis and Waveland, Hancock County, MS
These are small towns 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.
Buccaneer State Park, Waveland, Hancock County, MS 10/19/19
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Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati) | Eastern Wood Pewee | Same Eastern Wood Pewee | Estuary, with Great Egret in the distance | Marsh Wren |
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Monarch at the beach area | Another Monarch there | Variegated Meadowhawk there | Virginia Rail | Same Virginia Rail |
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Same Virginia Rail |
Waveland, Hancock County, MS 10/18/19
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Mating Blue Dashers | Checkered skipper | Female Common Green Darner on water lily pad | Same Common Green Darner ovipositing | Same Common Green Darner ovipositing |
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Same Common Green Darner ovipositing | Same Common Green Darner ovipositing | Dune Camphorweed | False Garlic | Forster's Tern |
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Male House Finch | Long-tailed Skipper | Another Long-tailed Skipper | Monarch | Railroad Vine |
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Sanderling | Sneezeweed |
Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS 10/16/17
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Great Egret | Brown Pelican | Juvie gull | Same juvie gull | Blue Jay |
Waveland, Hancock County, MS 10/14/17
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Cloudless Sulphur | Giant Swallowtail | Same Giant Swallowtail | Monarch | Seedbox |
Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS 10/13/17
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Checkered skipper | Long-tailed Skipper | Another Long-tailed Skipper | Yet another Long-tailed Skipper | Paraguayan Purslane |
Buccaneer State Park, Hancock County, MS 10/13/17
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Little Yellow | Northern Mockingbird | Moth | Orchard Spider | Ocola Skipper |
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Bee hidden in Common Boneset | Common Buckeye | Barred Yellow | Crablike Spined Orb Weaver |
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Same Crablike Spined Orb Weaver | Gulf Fritillary | Apparently deceased Asian Multicolored Ladybug Beetle pupa |
Bay St. Louis 10/18/15
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CSX train coming through intersection | US and Mississippi state flags |
Waveland 10/17/15
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Gulf Fritillary on zinnia | Ambush bug and bee prey on goldenrod | Backswimmer in pond | Frog | Frogs |
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Gulf Fritillary | Monarch | Painted Lady | Long-tailed Skipper | Another Long-tailed Skipper |
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Cloudless Sulphur | Ocola Skipper | Bumblebee | Common Buckeye | Drone Fly |
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Trailing Wild Bean | Zinnias | Common Buckeye on goldenrod |
Bay St. Louis 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 |
Bay St. Louis 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) |
Bay St. Louis 10/13/10
Bay St. Louis 10/9/09
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Long-tailed Skipper, wall at St. Stanislaus College, Bay St. Louis, MS, 10/9/09 |
Bay St. Louis 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 |
Bay St. Louis 1/9/09
These birds also appeared at Cedar Point.
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Swamp Sparrow | Horned Grebes | Female Bufflehead | Brown Pelican |
Bay St. Louis 10/7/04
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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." |
Bay St. Louis 9/4/03
Live map of Bay St. Louis, MS
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