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Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.
This is probably the only intact example of this habitat type in the U.S. This is part of a restoration project headed up by Maxwell Pons of The Nature Conservancy. Jaguarundis have been spotted at this particular location.
During the hawk and falcon migration, warblers and seed eating birds become scarce. On my trip to Cape May, the small birds, except for quick moves from bush to bush, stayed hidden. Any in flight would be eaten. And I do have photos of a Cooper's Hawk and a Peregrine Falcon with full bellies.
Seconds after this photo, a Peregrine Falcon came right by me (probably to get the sparrow). Other hawk watchers came rushing up to me and wanted to know how I get a close fly-by. I was a celebrity for about 15 minutes. The trick is to stand still and be quiet and let the animals come to you.
The photo was taken while walking through The Nature Conservancy land parcel at Cape May. The land was set aside for migratory birds.
Bearded Grass-Pink (Calopogon barbatus). I encountered this species of orchid in early May, a month earlier than some of the other orchids.
Location: The Green Swamp near Wilmington, North Carolina
Finally, a shot from the top of the new tower on Mt Mitchell. That tower was at least a year behind schedule. They did a great job, I'll have to tell you a story later about the construction worker I met up there. Great day to be there, can you tell?
Learn About American Bison:
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/a/american-bison/
Learn about the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve:
Mother Nature is reclaiming an old gravel pit. At the confluence of the Willamette River, an area recently acquired by the Nature Conservancy to be restored to native habitat.
This is the cabin where N'er Joe (back when the full N-word was a bit more common) used to live. Joe lost both his legs but still was able to mount his horse to panhandle tourists at a rest stop on highway 118 in the Davis Mountains.
Joe is gone now, but his house is still pretty cool.
Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.
Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.
A Zone-tailed Hawk patrols the riparian woodlands above The Nature Conservancy's Hassayampa River near Wickenburg, Arizona during April 2011.
The Oklahoma State Highest Point, Black Mesa
Black Mesa is the highest point in Oklahoma at 4,975 feet above sea-level. Black Mesa is located in Oklahoma's panhandle along the tri-state border with Colorado and New Mexico. It is named from the layer of black lava rock that coated the mesa about 30 million years ago. Igneous rocks are much more durable and erosion-resistant than the sedimentary rocks that they overlay; thus, the borders of the lava flow form a sort of cap that prevents the rock beneath them from being eroded as quickly as the rock immediately next to the flow's boundary. This type of process is what formed Black Mesa. Mesa comes from Spanish and Portuguese meaning "table" or "table mountain".
Here are some shots at took on the first day of the Portland Saturday Market for the year. Here a guy from the Nature Conservancy stops a couple of girls to talk to them.
Owners of the Hansen Livestock Co. discuss their conservation plan with Lindsay Schmidt, center, NRCS district conservationist. L to R: Eric Hansen, Paul Hansen, Jon Hansen, Lindsay Schmidt, Jay Lynn Hansen, Stephanie Hansen, and Jim Berkey, Nature Conservancy. Beaverhead County, Montana. June 2017.