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Full Bluebird Moon

5-15-19 Eastern Bluebird to be exact. I decided that this should be the name of this yet unnamed FMA since one landed right in front of my truck on La 92 near WJ Bernard's this morning, wrestled with an uncooperative insect and took off just in time to live to talk about it and give me a little excitement on my drive in. The Full Bluebird rises about 7 Friday and the sun sets about 8. Saturday the sunset/moonrise happen synchronously which is really cool, about 8, but there is a good chance of cloud cover with rain on Saturday/Sunday. I had the privilege of meeting and orienting a group of Master Naturalists a couple of Saturdays back to our Cade Farm. The farm is perched on the left bank of the Mississippi River delta, Big Muddy delta, the "high bank" is the bank cut out of the old alluvial plain on the West. this western edge of the delta is also the begining of the Great Southwest Prairie, Cajun Prairie. Bayou Tortou may be the old Vermilion River from the days whe...