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A Quintuplet Birthday!
Today’s post features an image I captured with my phone’s camera on Monday morning. I’ve been watching the bluebird box that I installed last year at my church in the Missouri Ozarks. Eggs were laid a little less than 2 weeks ago. Sensing that the eggs should be ready to hatch, I checked the box […]
Posted in Bird Photography, Nature Photography
Tags: birds, Missouri, nature photography
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A Kentucky Visitor
Today’s post features an image I captured a few years ago, but never published! While hiking Dorsett Hill Prairie (Cass County, MO), I found this nice-looking Kentucky Warbler as it checked the trees at the edge of the prairie, for insects: Thanks to my wonderful, birding friends, Tom and Lindsay, for help in identifying this […]
Posted in Bird Photography
Tags: birds, Dorsett Hill Prairie, Missouri, nature photography
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Airing the Dirty Laundry
Today’s post features another early spring wildflower that I captured last week at Ha Ha Tonka SP (Missouri Ozarks), Dutchman’s Breeches. Aptly named, the flowers on this small, woodland wildflower suggest that someone is hanging their dirty breeches in the woods to dry: Coming up … another woodland wildflower that was photographed on this hike. […]
Posted in Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: Missouri, nature photography, wildflower
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Live, in Technicolor
Today’s post features one of our most colorful ducks, the Wood Duck drake (male). This image was captured via kayak, in the waters of Amarugia Highlands Conservation Area, in west-central Missouri: Canon 1D Mark 3 camera body + Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens + Canon 1.4x TC Handheld, with IS “On”, from my kayak ISO […]
Posted in Bird Photography, Photography from a kayak
Tags: kayaking, nature photography
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Long and Winding Road
Today’s post features a lone, wild wolf that I encountered in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley a few winters ago. While driving the snowy road, this lone wolf was seen as he seemed to wander about, following a path in the snow. Wolf behavior is very complex and I’m not sure what his goal was. Was it […]