Hi. I need to visit New Orleans soon for ten days and will have two or three days spare to look for mammals. Can anyone suggest locations, guides methods or local specialties to look out for. I can travel I around a bit. I am from Australia and have seen only a few North American species. thanks.
RFI New Orleans area
Related Articles
-
Deramakot Delivers Again…
For anyone who has been contemplating visiting Deramakot following Jason & James Woolgar’s and Jon, Jean-Michel and I’s reports… here...
-
Wesbite problems …. sorry
If anyone has been looking at the country pages on mammalwatching.com and wondering where the list of trip repors...
-
New England Mammals
Planning a trip to pick my daughter up from Camp Sloane in Connecticut at the end of August, and...
-
Shrews & Trout
A new study from Alaska’s Bristol Bay on how often rainbow trout and grayling eat shrews: http://blog.nature.org/science/2014/09/10/rainbow-trout-grayling-eat-shrews-bristol-bay-alaska/ It seems...
-
Photography while solo spotlighting. Any tips?
A couple of people have asked over the past few weeks if I have any advice on how to...
-
Mammal watching gear
One of the inevitabilities of going mammal watching is that you end up taking lots of gear with you....
-
Weasel ID
Today, I had an amazing observation of a family group of one adult weasel with three young at Assabet...
-
More on Hog Badger
A chum is just back from Sichuan with a birding tour run by Zoothera; the 2013 trip report is...
I spent a bit of time in New Orleans, but didn’t do a whole lot of mammal watching. I did do OK at Fontainebleau State Park. I would recommend camping there and walking around with a spot light, or even a maglight. In about 3 hours on one night I saw several White-tail Deer, Raccoons, Opossums, Nine-banded Armadillos, a probable Swamp Rabbit, and two Southern-flying Squirrels. Seems like there were a few other things as well, but those would have been the best.
I also went to Grand Isle State Park, where Swamp Rabbits were easy and we saw several Bottle-nose Dolphins at dawn. Neither of these parks are that great of an outdoors experience, just picking up campground species. Grand Isle may be closed due to oil, so check a head before you make the long drive.
Thankyou,
Campground species are new to me. I appreciate the tips and will give it a go.