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buffalo calf gets its nourishment...it also eats grass
Nature Conservancy Tallgrass Prairie Preserve
Osage County, Oklahoma
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I went out looking for buffalo, but found a few smaller beauties instead!
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I never dreamed that mayfly costume would really work...Vermilion Flycatcher heading my way along the Devils River in the Nature Conservancy's Dolan Falls Preserve.
Nature Conservancy Prairie Park North of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Caputed on film with Nikon FM camera. scanned with Epson flatbed scanner and cropped to about square.
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Love the way grasses look in Winter, they add interest to the landscape. I leave mine up all Winter so the birds have a little extra shelter and a few seeds to nibble on. Also, on a quiet day, you can hear the grasses moving with the breeze and it's peaceful.
A lot of wildlife photographers will recognize the situation in which the subject is compelling, but the shooting conditions are crappy.
That's what happened here. The light was harsh and the subjects were down a steep embankment making it impossible to get a good shooting angle. But what we have here is a clash between a Marbled Godwit (right) and a Hudsonian Godwit (left). I couldn't resist posting shot of the rare nature moment. The two species didn't get along very well and entertained us with their squabbling for a few minutes. The outcome of the scuffle was a surprise. The smaller HG made a nifty move and jabbed its bill into the chest of the MG. That must have smarted and the bigger bird immediately left the vicinity.
This twofer is fifth in my shorebird series. One more tomorrow.
Nature Conservancy's Cheyenne Bottoms Preserve, Kansas.
At the Nature Conservancy Preserve, North of Pawhuska Oklahoma. Nikon D5300 with Nikor 200-500, with portrait orientation. Stitched with Photoshop; finished with DXO Photolab
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Surprised and honored to have one of my photos chosen for Honorable Mention in this year's Nature Conservancy global photo contest. A lot of amazing photos out there. Definitely worth the time to take a look.
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Nature Conservancy Tall Grass Prairie Preserve, North of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Captured on Nikon F2 film camera with Fujifilm XTRA 400 film. Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens.
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As the sun rose, steam began to rise off the water in this pond at the Nature Conservancy's Osage Prairie Park in Northeast Oklahoma.
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An endemic species, found in the Damaraland region.
Erongo Wilderness Lodge
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Female Goldfinch poses on a quaking aspen tree. State bird of Washington (state—added to distinguish it most clearly from D.C.).
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The Nature Conservancy's Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve near Patagonia AZ.
This guy had a favorite perch that he returned to time after time after his insect catching forays. This is a pretty significant crop and lacking the sharpness and details I'd prefer. But such a brilliant, striking bird deserves a post.
I have been up to the SFCP twice recently and enjoyed the wild nature trails along the Sante Fe River. There are birds about of course, but they are not so easily seen due to the low scrub and brush in which they tend to conceal themselves. This Song Sparrow was frenetically in and out of view… and I waited for her to hopefully eventually pop out so that she could get a better view of her surroundings and I would have enough time to get focus lock and squeeze the shutter release.
And as they say, patience is a virtue… she did pop up and began to sing, as any self-respecting Song Sparrow should.
Nature Conservancy Prairie Park Preserve North of Pawhuska, OK. Captured on a Nikon FM camera with Kodak Portra 160 film. Nikon 80-200 f/4 zoom lens.
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Fourth in my ground nester series is this Lesser Prairie Chicken.
From Wikipedia:
"The Lesser Prairie Chicken is Considered "vulnerable" by the IUCN due to its restricted and patchy range, due to habitat destruction. The Lesser Prairie Chicken's habitat has been reduced by 85%, and their population has declined by as much as 99% in some ecoregions as a result."
From The Cornell Lab:
"Females usually make their nests in shinnery oak copses (called “mottes”) in grasslands of sand sagebrush or bunchgrass. These sites are usually richer than the surrounding prairie in flowering plants and taller vegetation. Females dig scrapes in the soil, then line them with grasses, leaves, and feathers. These nests average about 7.9 inches across, with the interior about 7 inches across and 3.5 inches deep."
This one was photographed on the Nature Conservancy's Smoky Valley Ranch property in Kansas.
While waiting for a Song Sparrow to show herself, I heard a more familiar call nearby and saw a large Towhee calling… tempted as I was to move and catch the Towhee, I stayed with the Sparrow and hoped the Towhee would wait for me! Well sometimes the Birding Gods are smiling and indeed I was able to capture both of them singing and calling.
This skittish heron was barely visible thru the trees lining Juno Pond at the Conservancy near the confluence of the Great Miami and Ohio Rivers. Located in the tristate area of Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. The herons are very shy, to say the least.
I'm back after a few days away from Flickr. We visited a couple of wetlands in central Kansas hoping for some good migrating bird activity. While there were quite a few birds present, the weather wasn't very cooperative. Very windy conditions had the birds lying low, producing few photo ops.
An exception was a small group of Cattle Egrets foraging near the road in the Nature Conservancy's Chyenne Bottoms Preserve. Though windy, the weather was warm enough for snakes to be active, which this bird was happy to exploit for a meal.
From the Cornell Lab:
"The Lesser Prairie-Chicken is a pale grouse of the southern Great Plains, found only in prairie and agricultural land with shinnery oak and sand sagebrush. Once widespread and abundant, its numbers have crashed following heavy hunting in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then conversion of its natural habitat to cropland and rangeland. Like its close relative, the larger, darker Greater Prairie-Chicken, male Lesser Prairie-Chickens gather in spring on “leks,” sites where males compete for females by performing spectacular displays."
This shot was taken at Smoky Valley Ranch, a Nature Conservancy property in western Kansas. More than half of all lesser prairie chickens in the world are in western Kansas. The Nature Conservancy is playing a key role in preserving the species.
Third and final installment in my grouse series.
This Hawaiian honeycreeper is endemic to the island of Maui. This photo was taken in native forests in a restricted access site called Waikamoi Preserve which is run by the Nature Conservancy. It was a true honour to go in here. Luckily rapid ohia death has not reached the island of Maui. This is good because this fungal infection destroys the trees most honeycreepers depend on and with avian malaria, habitat loss and predation from invasive and introduced species, these birds have enough to deal with!