Bayou Petit Caillou

A bird sanctuary sits behind this roadside sign. Orleans Audubon Society created the Marguerite Moffett Audubon Sanctuary on December 31, 2001, as its second, on land donated by Dr. Marcel Remson and Billie Cole Remson; it is named for the doctor's aunt. The 108 acres of brackish marsh and shallow water off Highway 56 are reached by a 625-foot boardwalk to an overlook above Lake Quitman. Least bitterns, clapper rails and seaside sparrows nest there, white pelicans winter, and spoonbills and egrets visit. Admission is free, but the sanctuary was listed as closed for repairs, so check first.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LUMCON DeFelice Marine Center — 4.9 mi
  The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's laboratory at the end of Highway 56, open for self-guided tours of aquaria and exhibits, an observation tower and a pond boardwalk.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 18 mi
  A 4,212-acre refuge of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp southwest of Houma, with a nature trail to a boardwalk and observation deck and mostly boat-only access.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 19 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.

More markers nearby

• Saint Joseph Church — 10 mi
• Montegut School — 12 mi
• Sacred Heart Church — 12 mi
• "Hello Baby!" — 12 mi