I saw a Kingfisher today on a telephone wire:
There are a lot of birds here right now. There are many waterfowl wintering on the lakes, including a big flock of White Pelicans, which you normally see at the ocean, I guess.
I recently read a book about the rediscovery, in Arkansas, of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, which was supposedly extinct. Louisiana is also a hot spot in the search, especially the Atchafalaya Basin, to which I live very near. It's an interesting story, if anybody's interested they have a lot of info and a video that proves it still exists
HERE.
When I was a kid, I saw a Pileated Woodpecker in the forests where I grew up in Georgia and thought I had rediscovered the Ivory-Billed, but was, of course, wrong. They look very similar. I was a precocious little naturalist.