Massive, epic, cosmic...words posters used to describe the fallout on the southern Louisiana coast yesterday. Breland and I spent 15 hours in the rain, retreating to the car only during the worst thunderstorms. I saw more birds in a single day than I have seen in some years. Over 200 green herons led the parade when the storms paused, followed by hundreds of grey catbirds. Then the real show began. Warblers, thrushes, buntings, tanagers all in glorious color and moving through the trees.

Eighteen varieties of warblers in a single day...Magnolia, chestnut-sided, yellow, prothonotary, American redstart, Northern waterthrush, hooded, black-throated green, yellow throated, black and white, blackburnian, ovenbird, worm-eating, blue-winged, Kentucky, Northern Parula, palm, and blackpoll.

While it was a bird-watchers' dream it was not a good day for photography. Even after the rain ended the woods were dark and water from the trees rained down with every breeze. I didn't get many photos and most were in low light but it was a wonderful day.