Some twenty years ago, while beating around the river bottom looking for birds, I followed the grunts and honks of several Great Blue Herons and found a group of three nests in a large sycamore. Over the years, the rookery grew with more than thirty active nests some seasons. Having seen the herons [...]
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The weatherman had been calling for rain today, but it ended up mostly sunny and around 65 degrees. After all the rain, snow and generally nasty, cold weather we’ve had lately, it was glorious. After finding the witch hazel in bloom the other day, I’ve been thinking I need to see if I can’t find [...] You never know when a photo opportunity will present itself. Dayna and I, as we occasionally do, went to Poplar Bluff this morning to have breakfast and then do some grocery shopping at Wal-mart. We pulled into the parking lot at Perkin’s, looked to see if there were any parking spots along the front (there [...] Sorry if I got you excited, but I haven’t invented a time machine though that would be majorly cool. What I have done is stumble across A Preliminary List of the Birds of Shannon and Carter Counties, Missouri by one E. Seymour Woodruff and published in The Auk, Volume 25 in 1908. Mr. Woodruff was [...] Ok, I really love birds. They just frustrate the heck out of me when I’m trying to photograph them. But today, today I actually got close enough to a bird to get a darned near full-frame shot. [...] |
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