Visiting Bird City

Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler! We are passing a very good time down here in Southern Louisiana. We spent the day in a beautiful 200 acre garden filled with magnificent live oaks trees and early spring blooming camelias, azaleas, and magnolias. This garden is on Avery Island that has been owned by the McIlhenny family since around 1800. Such a great story of how in 1892 Mr McIhenny realized all the great white egrets had disappeared from the island. The great egrets had been decimated by plume hunters to serve the fashion world of the day. Mr McIhenny captured seven young birds and put them in a man-made nesting area of bamboo on pilings over the water. From then on the egrets returned to this protected area every spring to nest and raise their young. Now the area is called Bird City because 20,000 egrets show up each spring.


Daniel Bo


Magnificent Live Oak Trees




Full Bloom Beauty