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Fun Friday: Time With the Kids
Today’s post comes from one of my spring trips to the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma, were I can spend tons of time watching/photographing the cute Black-tailed Prairie Dogs. This adult prairie dog is busy attending to a couple of pups: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 1D Mark 2 body Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5 – f/5.6 […]
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Tags: Blog, cute, mammals, nature, nature photography, Oklahoma, prairie, prairie dogs, spring, travel, Wichita Mountains NWR
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A Salute to Our National Mammal
While I was on the road recently, it was announced that we now have a “National Mammal”, the American Bison. As I participate in art shows and festivals throughout the Midwest, I constantly find that the American Bison tends to be a popular choice of my show clients. In a salute to this wonderful animal, […]
Fun Friday: My Personal WatchDog
A funny moment in Oklahoma’s Wichita Mountains … woke up one morning and looked outside my camper to find my own, personal bodyguard … a large American Bison: Bison roam freely on the Wichita Mountains NWR, even in the campground! I had to carefully exit the camper and walk around my camper and to the […]
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Tags: behavior, bison, Blog, cute, mammals, nature, nature photography, Oklahoma, spring, travel, Wichita Mountains NWR
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Awesome Wildflowers
When hiking the meadows in the Wichita Mountains (SW Oklahoma) recently, I came upon a small clump of some wonderful wildflowers: With some help from some nature friends, I found out these are Eastern Bluestar (Amsonia tabernaemontana). They were pretty similar to the Wild Hyacinth we have on our prairies back in Missouri, but were […]
Fun Friday: Lady Beetle
Commonly called a “Ladybug”, this is really a beetle (I remember going through Master Gardener classes 12 years ago, and this was drilled into our heads by our entomologist instructor!). Actually our “ladybug beetles” are in the Family Coccinellidae, and are comprised of several species, within at least three genera. Not sure, but this one […]
White Beauty
While hiking around the Wichita Mountains recently, I found a nice clump of these white beauties … Prairie Larkspur (Delphinium virescens). Here are a few of my favorite images from the meadow: And a focus-stacked image, made from 12 images, showing the wonderful detail in the wildflower: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 1D Mark 3 […]