The Mobile-Tensaw Delta and Surrounding Areas Photo Gallery by lejun at pbase.com

The Mobile-Tensaw Delta and Surrounding Areas

Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta is the second largest delta in the United States and is sometimes called America's "Amazon".
It is made up of the great Mobile and Alabama River systems and contains one of the wold's most diverse aquatic environments.
It encompasses approximately 260,000 acres in a 40-by-10-mile area of marshes, cypress-tupelo swampland and bottomland hardwood environments.

It is home to some of the most diverse wildlife in the southeastern U.S. including 126 species of fish, 46 mammals, 69 reptiles,
30 amphibians and at least 300 species of birds, including more than 110 which nest in the region.
The Delta is also a host to a wide diversity of plants including rare orchids and lilies.

The delta is among the greatest global hot spots for endemism, that is species that exist nowhere else on earth.

The photos below chronicle the observations we made with our friends, Christa and Tom Straub,
as we traveled only a small portion of this vast area as well as Pitcher Plant Bogs and other adjacent wildlife viewing areas.
Many of the images were taken from an airboat, courtesy of Geoff and Brittany Woodliff of Delta Airboat Express, Spanish Fort, Alabama

Click on "original" size for each image for highest resolution and viewing quality.

Yellow-breasted Chat	Orange Milkwort	White-topped Pitcher Plants	White-topped Pitcher Plant Flower	White-topped Pitcher Plant Flower	Georgia Satyr
Georgia Satyr	Meadow Beauty	Bachman's Sparrow	Bachman's Sparrow	Unidentified Plant	Argyrostrotis deleta Moth
Seepage Dancer Damselfly	Indigo Bunting	White-topped Pitcher Plants	Yellow Meadow Beauty	Cross-leaf Milkwort	Insect Larval Sac
Pitcher Plant Field	Trio of Purple Pitcher Plants	Purple Pitcher Plant	Sweet Bay Magnolia	Purple Passion Flower	Yellow Salsify
Purple Passion Flower with Cucumber Beetle	Barred Yellow Butterfly	Needham's Skimmer	Rambur's Forktail Damselfly	Great Blue Skimmer	Great Blue Skimmer
Great Egret	Great Blue Heron	Common Moorhen Adult and Chick	Common Moorhen Chicks	Moorhen Chick	Common Moorhen Chick
Purple Gallinule	Osprey Nest	Osprey	Osprey	Osprey	Osprey
Osprey	Pickerelweed	Pickerelweed	Four-spotted Pennant Dragonfly	Lizard's Tail	Purple Gallinule on Nest
Eastern Pondhawk (Male)	American Lotus	American Lotus	Spider Lily	Spider Lily	American Alligator
American Alligator (Juvenile)	Elderberry	Duck Potato	Eastern Lubber Grasshopper	White-top Sedge	Eastern Pondhawk Female
Eastern Pondhawk Male	Trumpet Creeper	Tricolored Heron	Seaside Dragonlet Male	Clapper Rail	Clapper Rail
Clapper Rail	Clapper Rail	Clapper Rail	Great Egret	Great Egret	Great Egret
Laughing Gull	Laughing Gull	Savannah Meadowbeauty	Blue Dasher	Stoke's Aster	Pipewort
Southern Pearly-eye	Citrine Forktail	White-topped Pitcher Plants	Yellow Pitcher Plant	Great Blue Skimmer	Common Five-lined Skink
Crimson-eyed Rose Mallow	Butterfly Milkweed	Buttonbush

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joseantonio		01-Jul-2014 04:09
Great collection of nice images.V

click on thumbnails for full image

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