Prairie Dog warming up the engines on a chilly spring morning with some wonderful solar power. Hope your enjoying the sunshine if you have it.
Tag: praire
Hidden gems
On a recent walk through sagebrush scrub and grassland we were treated to numerous hidden gems along the way. Lupines flowering amongst the grasses still mainly brown after a winters sleep.
Shooting stars in clusters were dispersed along the way. Never a thick carpet, just a sprinkling, every now and then.
Bluebells dangled in little clumps…
and Penstemon light the way.
Hidden gems indeed.
Excavating
Hand dug additions to this years burrow. A Prairie Dog working hard at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
An exciting addition to the family home.
A Subtle Symphony: prelude
There are landscapes you hear as well as see.
Playing you a subtle symphony.
A composition rich with harmony and a subtle quiet melody.
13 lined Ground Squirrel
The photo is a bit blurry but so was our encounter with the 13 Lined Ground Squirrel. We were watching a Prairie Dog Colony and there was one Prairie Dog that just did not seem like the others. He was thinner and smaller. They would stand up tall and then quickly dart to another location very rapidly. They were much more hidden in the grass as well. We tried over and over to get a good look but this is the best we got that afternoon. A fleeting glimpse of a magnificent 13 lined ground squirrel.
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Spermophilus_tridecemlineatus/
Seeing a new animal made me realize once again that life is so diverse and wonderful and there is so much yet to see.
Importance of Poo
Bison eats grass and then it poops,bugs eat poo and then lay eggs, grubs grow, birds break apart poo and eat the grubs, the broken apart poo fertilizes soil and new grass grows. What a wonderful cycle.
Hi Ho the Prairie-o the Grackle and the Poo…
http://www.rangemagazine.com/features/winter-05/cowpie.shtml
Quenched
The grasslands give thanks as spring showers arrive, their thirst is finally quenched. A wonderful cycle of wet then dry continues once again.
Northern Montana, 2017.
Traveling the Backroads
Feeling at home where the landscape reclaims the roads.
A quiet place where impermanence is understood.
On the Prairies and Sagebrush plains of Colorado what will be, still is.
April, 2017
Excavating
Hand dug additions to this years burrow. A Prairie Dog working hard at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
An exciting addition to the family home.
All alone in the sandhills
Fresh grasses on a burnt land with willows and hills of sand.
Frogs were signing all day long.
The wind blew strong.
Valentine National Wildlife Refugee, NE.
nature has no boss 
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