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A Flint Hills Vista

I was driving through the Flint Hills on the Kansas Turnpike and stopped at the Bazaar Cattle Pens to take these pictures…

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Migration In Full Swing

I wrote not long ago about the BirdCast site that shows real time bird migration patters with weather radar. This morning on Facebook, there was a query in a birding group about a radar image someone had screenshot with a big blob over Kansas City. They were wondering if it was possibly a migration echo.

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New Zodeman Store Listings

I finally got a round tuit, and listed the rest of my print sizes for the Windmill at Dawn picture. The 8x10 canvas versions will be on sale for the remainder of April. More pics and sizes coming soon…

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Cowley County Sights

Next stop was back in Kansas at the Cowley County Fishing Lake. There is a nice waterfall there and it is a very pretty little lake. With spring in full swing, the redbuds are blooming, and the scenery is gorgeous.

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Spring Bison Viewing

. One of my favorite places to go is Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve where there is a herd of about 2500 bison running loose on over 20,000 acres of the Osage Hills.

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Gypsum Hills In Early Spring

As is usually the case my plans were spoiled a bit by the weather. I had planned to see sunrise in the Gypsum Hills to start things off. The night before my trip I checked weather conditions and it was supposed to be cloudy and possible rain most of the way so I scratched the sunrise expedition. I did stop …

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Some Of My New Neighbors

My last post was about the new neighbors we are all getting as the birds return to their summer homes. As spring is rapidly unfolding here there are lots of other things that are moving about.

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