View allAll Photos Tagged Prairie
Prairie dog
Cynomis
Prairiehond
Prairie dog
We are are herbivorous burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America.
We are are named for our habitat and warning call, which sounds similar to a dog's bark. (woof?)
We are mainly herbivorous, though we eat some insects. We feed primarily on grasses and small seeds. In the winter, pregnant females supplement their diets with snow for extra water.
We also will eat roots, seeds, fruit, and buds. Grasses of various species are eaten
Highly social, we live in large colonies or "towns", and collections of prairie dog families can span hundreds of acres. Our prairie dog family groups are the most basic units of its society.
And so, Stehouwer and Recio have decided to make us an important animal on their stream, we are so proud! Much more of our pictures will follow.
Just nibbling at lunch, see you!
The Prairie Falcon hit the Pigeon, but could not hold it. The Pigeon dropped like a rock to the ground below. The Falcon did not follow it down but continued hunting until it flew away east without another hit at that location.
Alberta Grain Terminal. Edmonton. Alberta.
.
For a raptor, it is funny that the expression on its face makes me think it's nice and sweet.
Carrizo Plain National Monument.
Prairie 5521 between duties at Didcot Railway Centre, 7th May 2010. More small Prairies at davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Great-Western-Region/45XX...
best viewed while listening to this music :-)
with thanks to:
Flypaper Textures - Spring Painterly: Omega, Scotch Mist, Umbria Eclipse
snowy day texture from Sunset Sailor
Sunset light on big bluestem grass that has taken on it's October straw color. The earth tones are beautiful on the prairies this time of year.
The M-SSNP works up a slight grade leading into Bingham Lake. Cool to see the train undulate in the varying terrain. Meanwhile, today was warm enough to cause some heat distortion seen in the background obscuring the windmill.
Rare on the West Coast, the prairie subspecies of Merlin is normally found on the Northern Plains east of the Rocky Mountains.
The Prairie Merlin captured a small passerine and fed on a pole at Boundary Bay BC
Grazing horses under an approaching storm, near Golden Prairie, Rural Municipality of Big Stick No. 141, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The Rural Municipality (RM) of Big Stick No. 141 incorporated as a Saskatchewan rural municipality in 1911. It takes its name from nearby Bigstick Lake, which was named after the Big Stick Trail between Maple Creek and the South Saskatchewan River.
Indicating how rare it was for early settlers passing in their covered wagons or Red River carts to see anything other than flat prairie along the trail, the location was notable for a large, solitary tree landmark nicknamed "The Big Stick."
Unique to Saskatchewan, the 296 rural municipalities retain the subdivision number in their names to this day. However, the numbers go as high as 621 due to a century of amalgamation and dissolution.
Numbered rural municipalities occur only in the central and southern part of Saskatchewan. The northern half of the province is administered by the provincial government through the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District.
Nikon D750
AF Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED
► All my images are my own real photography, not fake AI fraudography.
■ Please don't use my images for any purpose, including on websites or blogs, without my explicit permission.
■ S.V.P ne pas utiliser cette photo sur un site web, blog ou tout autre média sans ma permission explicite.
© Tom Freda / All rights reserved - Tous droits réservés
The day before yesterday (6 February 2014) was a day of huge responsibility! My youngest daughter wanted (i.e. desperately wanted!) to see her very first Snowy Owl. So, off we went, SE of the city. I took her to various areas where Snowy Owls had been seen on 25 January, when I went there with friends and we saw 8 Snowy Owls and 8 Great Horned Owls. Nothing, absolutely nothing! All we managed to find was a flock of Horned Larks and a handful of Ravens. If nothing else, my daughter has now seen just how difficult it usually is to find a Snowy : ) Of course, we were happy to stop and photograph a number of old barns and homesteads during the day, including this very distant one, that we couldn't get closer to, so I had to use 48x zoom. The very distant, magnificent Rocky Mountains were always in view over the golden stubble fields. Four or five hours later, we called in at the Saskatoon Farm on the way home and drowned our disappointment in a delicious meal, ha. Their food is so good! A most enjoyable day, even if we didn't see a Snowy.
Badlands National Park, South Dakota USA.
On these plains, this prairie, Native Americans once hunted bison and deer with complete freedom. Today, a small population of bison still roam these plains, feeding on lush grass watered by summer thunderstorms, undisturbed and free, but confined by the fences of the park.
Nikon D810, Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 @ f/16, 1/1600
Unprocessed - direct output from the camera.
There actually was a class of steam locomotive called the Prairie, a mid-sized machine with a 2-6-2 wheel configuration. This isn’t one of them.
This is a Davenport 0-4-0T saddle tanker … one of the more forlorn specimens I’ve ever seen, showing the effects of time, neglect and ham-fisted preservation.
These were commonly known as Dinkies, a most fitting nickname, and were used at sugar refineries across the prairie states, including here in Fort Morgan, Colo.
The building behind it first electrified the city of Fort Morgan in 1923 but is used as a municipal garage or depot these days.
Prairie Line Railway MP15DC 1001 emerges from the 168-year old (1852 built) Anheuser-Busch brewery complex in St. Louis, MO, with a single empty hopper in tow. The Prairie Line took over switching operations at Anheuser-Busch earlier this year from Patriot Rail, and from how I understand it is the rebranded FTRL (Foster Townsend Rail) operation that gave this line up to Patriot Rail a few years ago. The brewery receives a variety of products for different drinks in hoppers, including hops, wheat, barley and more. The company also ships beer in boxcars to distribution centers in LaPorte, TX and Aurora, CO, the boxcars for which are loaded in the warehouse South East of the plant (right behind and to the left of the photographer). The brewery is serviced several times a day depending on plant needs as only a handful of cars can be spotted at a time. The spur runs down Dorcas Street, if only for a block and a half, and is the last bit of street trackage of the Manufacturers Railway system that once branched throughout the streets of downtown St. Louis. The Manufacturers Railway was owned by the brewery (and actually founded by Anheuser-Busch in 1887) but was given up in 2011 when AB stopped shipping beer by rail. Back then FTRL took over operations and since then has managed to win back at least some of the outbound boxcar traffic. St. Louis, MO
Blossoms on my Prairie Fire crabapple tree. I took this in the rain while holding an umbrella in one hand, and my camera in the other. Sadly this will be the tree’s last spring, as I am having it replaced. It blooms spectacularly in the spring, but has poor foliage the rest of the summer and fall. I have consulted an arborist and he said it wasn’t planted properly and the roots are very shallow. This is only its third year. The best thing to do long term is to replace it with a new tree and make sure it is planted properly.
ODC - Fill the Frame
100 Flowers 2022 - No. 16
CMWD
CMWD_pink or purple