This Yellow Shafted Flicker, as the name implies, has a very distinctive marking…the shafts on it’s feathers, and the underside of the wings, are a bright yellow. You can’t miss it when it’s flying around the backyard. Flickers are actually in the woodpecker family and they make a great, colorful addition, around the bird feeders. … Read more
It’s a beautiful thing when plans come together…maybe even better than you imagined. It would never take much persuasion for someone to get me to go to Badlands National Park in western South Dakota. I really enjoy this park and the trips we’ve had out there. There is a particular section of the park that … Read more
Some say the middle child is always the rambunctious one. I’m not really sure about that but if I had to guess in this case they are probably right. While the other three swans were calm and composed, the one of the right never stopped fidgeting, flapping, and being an amusing, and ever-lovable, disturbing element.
In the late fall and early winter, love is in the air, in the badlands. This is the time when the rut begins for the bighorn sheep, and if you’ve watched any wildlife documentary on the sheep, you have no doubt seen the big rams battling it out for dominance. They skull crushing, head on … Read more
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, leaving no track behind. – William Shakespeare
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. – Albert Schweitzer