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While driving in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan near the town of Ontonagon we spotted this old deserted and abandoned prairie treasure set back off the road. Every time I see a barn or building like this I wonder what life would have been like when it was in it's prime. It would be great if you could travel back in time and see.
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“Prairie Wildflowers Silo” by Patti Deters. Minnesota prairie wildflowers yellow coneflower (Ratibida pinnata) and purple hoary verbena vervain (Verbena stricta) bloom late summer and frame a local farm’s silo among the tall weedy field grasses. Photographed at Spring Lake Park Reserve early evening and you can see the clouds are just starting to take on dusk colors. Vertical crop. Please enjoy more of my (scenic, landscape, travel, and more!) images at patti-deters.pixels.com.
A prairie, burned earlier in the season, is just about to wake up! If you haven't had the chance, make sure to try to get yourself walking on a prairie that's never been disturbed, the ground feels amazing!
Grasslands and prairies have a rich biodiversity of both plants and animals. In the moderate temperature regions this is very evident with the coming of the spring season. With the snows melted and ground thaws, prairie wildflowers are the first to emerge to reach for the sun. In a good year, the plains turn into a chaos of colors that carpet the land. The flowering period does not last long, so the plants make use of every moment. With the vast expanse of color in front of me, I was fortunate to have little wind (a rarity on the prairies) and some epic cloud formations and early light to work with.
Prairie in Buffalo Gap National Grassland with Railroad Buttes in the distance. Buffalo Gap is so named because it is the only break in a ring of foothills that surround the Black Hills mountain range. Bison traveled through this gap when migrating between the Hills and the Prairies.
My work is sending me down to southeastern Colorado on Thursday to photograph some very healthy Central Shortgrass Prairie so I decided to upload this photo from my previous trip down there in anticipation. With luck I will return with fun grassland images celebrating the native biodiversity of our fine state. Hope everyone is having a great week!
Monte Vista, Colorado - An in flight look at one of my winter finds while at the Sandhill Crane Festival in the San Luis Valley ...
New York Central Park in the Fall.
The prairie warbler (Setophaga discolor) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
The vernacular name "prairie warbler" is attributed to the Scottish-American naturalist Alexander Wilson who saw the species in 1810 in prairie country in southwestern Kentucky. This name is arguably misleading, since the bird generally prefers shrubbery and small trees rather than true open prairie habitats.
These birds have yellow underparts with dark streaks on the flanks. In males, the back is olive green with chestnut or rufuos streaks. A black stripe runs through the eye, and another black stripe runs from the beak down the throat. This semicircular stripe gives them a distinctive "tired" look. They have two faint wing bars. Their tails have large white areas, and they have dark legs. Coloring is duller in females and immature birds, and streaks are fainter or absent.
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digging in the archieves, haven't been out much as its just been to busy, hoping to make it out soon to catch the 'chickens'.......prairie chickens will start mating in march with the males 'dancin' to draw in the hens, seems like I've always had the opposite effect...
Prairie dogs are herbivorous burrowing ground squirrels native to the grasslands of North America. Within the genus are five species: black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and Mexican prairie dogs. In Mexico, prairie dogs are found primarily in the northern states, which lie at the southern end of the Great Plains. They are considered endangered. Prairie dogs are threatened by human intolerance, disease, climate change and habitat loss.
Great Western Railway 4500-Class 'Prairie' 2-6-2T stands in the platform at the Severn Valley Railway's southern terminus, Kidderminster Town, while featuring in a photographers charter on 23rd February 2007. The gated entrance to the platform forms a natural frame. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
A couple of CN geeps, the 4315 and 4317 rest at Winnipeg late in the evening on September 15, 1986. This pair and there van were probably assigned to one of the grain gathering branch lines that dotted the prairie provinces.
The prairie dogs in the Badlands National Park were the cutest things! They are a type of ground squirrel, found in the United States, Canada and Mexico. They used their front paws much like squirrels do. They whistle and call to one another constantly and if you whistle, their little heads will soon pop up out of their dens to see who's there. This one is munching out on some Prairie grass. They were great entertainment! :)
The notebook is from the prairie collection. Pairing it with this particular bandana really gives off some prairie energy!
Notebook from Fringe Studio, bandana from Bandana of the Month Club.
Lot's of close contact between these social animals - this is how they recognize one another in a large colony.
Southern Saskatchewan.
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Second Session with this one! The previous shot I had taken 500 photos waiting for the flight shot, but the position I was inside the car was too awkward. Tonight I just took a chance and got of the car and 315 shots later I finally got 3 good shots of flight! Here is the 1st one! Wow, my neck and my arms got tired as there was no time or place to set up correctly!!!
A plant called prairie smoke found in a meadow overlooking the North Saskatchewan River. Taken in mid-June, when some have blossomed and others are about to burst open.
A short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) hunting a tall grassland near my home in Montana, winter 2025.
This species of owl can be found in open landscapes such as cattail marshes and tall grass prairie. It is partially migratory, moving south in winter and in high vole years as many as 50 can be seen in a tall grass area. Shortears hunt mostly at night but their is typically also hunting around sunrise and sunset. 2025 was a high vole year here in Montana, so many shortears were present. So far I have not seen any shortears in 2026 in areas where they were abundant during the high vole year.
This species occurs on all continents except Antarctica and Australia.
Grasslands are so hard for me to shoot well so I'm always very happy when the light cooperates like this.... Another very verdant year on the tallgrass prairie here this year... Used my two-stop split neutral density filter to hold back the sky exposure....
A planted prairie with hand gathered and sown wild seeds from nearby native remnants. @Iltis Savanna.
The Prairie Line 1206 is looking better all the time. Ed Powers has completed the new paint . The unit still needs some front end work. According to the owner , Mr. Bill Broyles the unit will some day work the Brewery. Photo taken on private property with company permission.