St Francisville, LA - Audubon

St Francisville was a pretty little town with lots to do in the area. Once we realized that we weren't going to get our dish working, we decided to stay and visit the sites before moving on to another destination. Late the first afternoon we went across the street from the campground to the Audubon State Historic House. John James Audubon stayed here in 1821 while he worked as a tutor for one of the plantation owner's children. While he was here he painted many of the birds that you can now find in his bird identification books. So we got a tour of our first plantation home. They had 250 slaves to help in the cotton fields. The property was heavily forested and we saw a variety of birds (or heard them) during our short visit.
Over at the barn, we got to meet Priscilla:
It's hard to tell in this photo, but Priscilla was *enormous*. But quite friendly when she gathered her energy to stand up and come say 'hi'.
And this beautiful peacock with a tail that was probably four feet long:

Wish we could've had more time to walk the nature trail on the property. It was so peaceful with all of the birds singing.