Went on a guided bird watch through Fontainebleau State Park, located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. This land was originally owned by Jean-Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, born in New Orleans in 1785. He named his large holding Fontainebleau, after the forest near Paris, France. The state originally named the park Tchefuncte State Park and Conservation Reservation, after the Tchefuncte River. Who knows why they went back to the Fontainebleau name.
They had some 200 year old live Oak Trees:
Most of the birds we saw were bland:
The most colorful bird was this moorhen:
I did see this yellow-head sapien looker. Usually in this marsh area, they are on boardwalks or dirt paths:
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