COLORS OF THE SWAMP
At
sunset, flocks of egrets, herons, ibises, and cormorants fly over
Cypress
Flats into the swamp as the croaking
of frogs washes over the basin
like a wave.
Sunset.
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Nature's Paintings
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VISITORS TO THE SWAMP
Louisiana
pelicans and other migratory birds
spend several weeks each year in the
basin,
a stop along the Mississippi River Flyway.
"Clothilde"
sunning on a log. In 1997, the
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
released
an additional 24 baby gators into the swamp.
The
small Green Heron, like its wide-winged relative,
the Great Blue Heron,
is a cunning fisherman
and one of 250 species of birds in the Spanish Lake
Basin.
This
giant bald cypress tree, about 750 years old, was saved in 1993 when Frank
Bonifay, shown here, and Jim Ragland preserved 901 acres of the basin in a national non-profit organization. These giants are among the last of Louisiana's old
growth cypress trees.
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Swamp Critters
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