This bird was unknown to me until I travelled to Saskatchewan. It is a tiny bird rather difficult to locate. When I heard the buzz in the bushes, I initially thought that the sound was made by an insect. These active birds tend to forage within the branches of shrubs or on the ground beneath cover. According Cornelllab of Ornithogoly although they are still very numerous, their numbers have slowly declined over the past 40 years

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Clay-colored_Sparrow/sounds

Looking down County Road 11 from State Highway 10 in the high plains of Otero County east of Walsenburg, Colorado.

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West of Buchanan, North Dakota.

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I am reposting this photo on my Flickr stream. It was selected by the Midwest Center for Photography for entry into a landscape photography exhibit.

See the selected photos at:

mwcponline.org/Midwest_Center_for_Photography/land.html

Abandoned house in Stutsman County, North Dakota.

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Some sources say that this was a church. It might have been a church, but clearly, it also was a home.

Cold sunset on the South Dakota badlands, USA, late October 2020, more to come from this spot in the coming weeks and months.

Wetland in Stutsman County, North Dakota.

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Singing colors of the high plains

Captured from a moving train

Under that extravagant sky

A golden moment fleeting by

Coronado Heights is a hill northwest of Lindsborg, Kansas. It is alleged to be near the place where Francisco Vásquez de Coronado gave up his search for the seven cities of gold and turned around to return to Mexico.

Coronado Heights is one of a chain of seven sandstone bluffs in the Dakota Formation and rises approximately 300 feet.[1]

In 1915 a professor at Bethany College in Lindsborg found chain mail from Spanish armor at an Indian village excavation site a few miles southwest of the hill,[2] and another Bethany College professor promoted the name of Coronado Heights for the hill. In 1920 the first road was built up the hill, known as Swensson Drive, with a footpath known as Olsson Trail. In 1936, a stone shelter resembling a castle was built on top of the hill as a project of the Works Progress Administration. In 1988 a sculpture by John Whitfield was placed half-way up the hill with the inscription "Coronado Heights 'A Place to Share'".[1]

Shot along US 26 just south of Lake McConaughy

Sheyenne River

Hi-Line Bridge, Valley City, North Dakota

October 2022

I'm so used to shooting wildlife but lately have been trying to explore new scenes. This is very new to me, lol a tractor.

A group of pronghorn antelope graze on the prairie of northeastern New Mexico, illuminated by the warm low angle light just before sunset. Pronghorn are one of the most emblematic grazers of western North America, occurring in open terrain from the deserts of the southwest through the Great Basin and onto the Great Plains. They are the most speedy of the large ungulate grazers in North America, able to achieve a speed of 55 mph (88 km/h) for short distances, making them a tough target for predators.

Photographed along eastbound U.S. Highway 40 in Page City, Winona Township, Logan County, western Kansas

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Singing colors on the high plains

All in motion from the train

Dragon flying in the sky

Golden moments rushing by

Unexpected sunset show! Thought it would be clear, but these very dynamic clouds popped up. Very close to sunset - you can see the stripe of sun shining between the train and the tracks.

Also some decent anticrepuscular rays going on!

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Stutsman County, North Dakota.

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Standing his ground on the plains landscape of South Dakota.

Hedge posts like this are a common sight in rural Kansas. Hedge rows of Osage Orange trees planted to mark early property lines across the plains still provide fencing in use today.

Scene along the Cedar River, following a heavy hoar frost. Better larger.

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Photographed from U.S. 40 west of Winona, Logan County in western Kansas.

The geo tag is approximate.

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Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA, before sunset, this place is another photographer's dream in the hours before and after sunset/sunrise, it was difficult to choose which to upload, but there will be many more coming from this area. Happy Monday to all.

Frosty morning at Sylvan Lake, South Dakota, USA. This is my second upload taken with a drone, I still don't know how to use the damn thing, I had problems landing it, the commands didn't seem to work, perhaps because of the temperatures, seems drone batteries don't like the cold, and there's a 30m(100ft) geofence everywhere I tried in the USA. The lake surface was already frozen from an onslaught of cold weather before I visited, the forecast for the following days was for unseasonable warmth, after I left the area they were blasted with an onslaught of....covid19, which didn't surprise me at all, NOBODY there was wearing masks indoors or out, or social distancing, NOBODY!

This is just east of the intersection of Ohio and 17th street in north Wichita. A slight edit in Lightroom.

Wetlands in Stutsman County, North Dakota.

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Sunlight streaming through the clouds creates crepuscular rays that cross with bands of light rain blown by the wind (l to r). This view is towards the east and the city of Boulder from Caribou Ridge at around 11,000 feet (3300 m) looking down to the Great Plains at around 5300 feet (1600 m). The large valley on the left side is the Boulder Creek drainage.