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Day Out At Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge

Posted on 20/10/2020
Bird watching, Ecotourism, Fish watching, Recording wildlife sightings, snake watching, Wild Places, wildlife photography

Call for COVID-19 support grant proposals

SMALL GRANTS Available To Support Resilience in Wildlife Communities – Call For Proposals in COVID-19 RESPONSE

Posted on 17/04/2020
Conservation, Ecotourism, sustainable development, Wild Places

Healing Nature Image

Celebrate Fall!

Posted on 08/10/2019
Conservation, Louisiana Master Naturalists Northeast, Louisiana Nature, Wild Places, wildlife photography

Rodent tooth in fresh Bobcat scat. The anterior surface of the tooth is orange because it is fortified with iron. C. Paxton image and copyright.

Bobcat Business at Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge

Posted on 27/02/2019
Louisiana Nature, Recording wildlife sightings, Wild Places

Gulf Fritilary butterflies vie in beauty with the flowers that nourish them in Black Bayou's lovely new Pollinators' Garden.

Enjoy Autumn Outdoors at Black Bayou’s Fall Festival

Posted on 12/10/2018
Louisiana Nature, Protected Areas, Wild Flowers, Wild flowers, Wild Places

Dung beetles rolling along the footpath to the Rainey Lake pier at Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge. Taken on Pentax K-1 with Pentax 100mm F 2.8 macro lens by C. Paxton

Beetle-mania, these dung beetles were on a roll!

Posted on 11/06/2018
Insect Photography, Macro, Wild Places, wildlife photography

Indian pink, just one part of Louisiana's rich plant biodiversity.

Botanical Workshop Events

Posted on 09/05/2018
Botanical courses, Research, Wild Flowers, Wild Places

A graceful tree snake descending through branches of a a low tree in Black Bayou NWR, Louisiana.

Smooth Mover – our encounter with a Rough Green Snake

Posted on 29/03/2017
Recording wildlife sightings, Wild Places

Bull Alligator displaying,

When discretion is the better part of valour!

Posted on 26/10/2016
Lumix GX8, Tales From The Riverbank, Wild Places, wildlife photography

The Alligator Gar fish in the beautiful Gourd Bayou at Russel Sage Wildlife Management Area, Monroe Louisiana. C.Paxton photo and copyright.

Wild Places: Russell Sage Wildlife Management Area

Posted on 25/08/2016
Wild Places, wildlife photography