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White-tailed Doe With 3 Fawns – Update
First, I’d like to officially welcome my new subscribers that signed up for my nature blog e-mail subscription at this past weekend’s Artfest Midwest art festival in Des Moines, Iowa. I enjoyed meeting and talking with you at the show and I sincerely hope that you find my blog posts both interesting and educational. If […]
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Tags: behavior, Blog, Cass County, cute, deer, mammals, Missouri, nature, nature photography, summer
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Supermom!
Yesterday morning, I decided to check out one of the nearby natural prairies to see how the wildflower display was progressing. I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of different wildflowers in bloom. Over the winter, this area was expanded by brush-hogging a lot of the invasive plants (esp. sumac and wild plumb) down. […]
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Tags: behavior, Blog, Cass County, cute, deer, mammals, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie
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A New Way to Deer Hunt
(This post originally published in October 2010) Late last week, I was photographing Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa) as they flew about … one of my favorite local subjects is to photograph these beautiful ducks as they fly about the kayak. It was a bit slow where I had Rubber Ducky parked, but I heard a […]
Pitter Patter of Little Feet
(This post originally published in October 2010) Our home is located in a very rural area of west-central Missouri. We have 10 acres of land that includes ~7 acres of wooded land and ~ 3 acres of meadow (now our “front and back yard”) and the typical wildlife that accompanies this type of landscape. We […]
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Tags: behavior, Blog, Cass County, deer, fall, mammals, Missouri, nature, nature photography, white-tailed deer
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The Buck Stops Here
This past weekend I drove to central Kansas in hopes of photographing some rare and endangered Whooping Cranes that are migrating to their wintering grounds at Aransas NWR in southern Texas. Unfortunately, as we reached our destination, the area was under a severe storm. Winds of up to 90 mph were recorded, along with a […]
Posted in Mammals, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: behavior, Blog, deer, deer buck, fall, Kansas, mammals, National Wildlife Refuge, nature, nature photography, Quivira NWR, rut, travel, white-tailed deer
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Fun Friday: Let’s Make A Deal
Do you want Door #1? … Or Door #2? … Or Door #3? Today’s post comes from my kayaking excursion that I made Wednesday morning. I was cruising a Missouri waterway, looking for beaver activity as they prepare for the upcoming winter. However, I did not expect to find this scene, the young buck standing […]
Posted in Mammals, Nature Photography, Photography from a kayak
Tags: beaver, beaver lodge, behavior, Blog, buck, Cass County, deer, fall, kayaking, mammals, Missouri, nature, nature photography, white-tailed deer
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