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tags: photoessay, Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas, nature
I know you all are wondering what happened to me since I have been so quiet today, and the truth is that I am doing all sorts of amazingly fun things as long as possible until my broken wing makes me exhausted from ignoring the pain. At the…
tags: tree, Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas, nature, Image of the Day
Trunk from what is probably a Black Locust, Robinia pseudoacacia,
colonized by a community of crustose lichens [study]
on the Konza Prairie, near Manhattan Kansas. March 2008.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [larger view].
tags: American bison, Bos bison, Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas, nature, Image of the Day
Portrait of an adult female bison, Bos bison,
on the Konza Prairie, near Manhattan Kansas. March 2008.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [larger view].
Portrait of a male Greater Prairie-Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido.
Image: Dave Rintoul, KSU. 2007.
This morning, I had the great privilege to watch male Greater Prairie-chickens, Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus, perform on a lek site located on the Konza Prairie in Kansas, along with Dave Rintoul's…
'ere, I recognise that stone! It was in the second photo yesterday.
I really need to get a life, don't I?
yes, you do. either that or take up birding as a hobby; you've got the ability to perceive detail.
O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Gerard Manley Hopkins.
[say it three times quickly]
I do indoor birdwatching, it's much less hassle (and Jack sometimes helps). I've seen sea eagles and spoonbills this way. And I also saw something black fly into a tree this morning when I got up.