Two birds perched on the ground, one brown and white with a dark mustache stripe, the other speckled brown
The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Juveniles, any young bird capture.
Horned Lark, parent and juvenile, Kansas 2025
#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #Larks #TallgrassPrairie #FlyoverCountry
small streaky brown bird with upraised tail, perched astraddle two grass stems and scolding the photographer
The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Grass, any bird standing on Grass.
Sedge Wren, Kansas 2022
#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #Wrens #TallgrassPrairie #FlyoverCountry
Little church on the hill in southwest Kansas. Some of the last small remnants of what was once a vast tall grass prairie have been preserved in this area. #Kansas #prairie #TallGrassPrairie #landscapes #photography
Halloween pennant dragonfly
Wild turkey
Plains garter snake
Yellow garden spider
Today's throwback is to the Smolenski Park prairie restoration in warmer weather. It's been awhile since I've been out there. Gonna have to talk myself into getting back out in the cold and visiting it.
#prairie #habitat #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #wildlife #animals #Wisconsin
A brief video I made on how the #FlintHills of #Kansas saved their #TallGrassPrairie from being destroyed. #prairie #grasslands #ecology #colonization youtube.com/shorts/4T5Wp...
🔥Harris et al evaluated 2 of the earliest and largest #patchburngrazing projects in the #tallgrassprairie of MN-🌾 an ecosystem that has undergone extensive fragmentation and invasion by non-native species. Learn more about their findings at doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
#conservation #science #prairie
Lost heart over #videos after my phone died last spring with a lot of unshared content, but #KonzaPrairie inspired me to try again. Here's a very brief look at the #prairie #biodiversity from last week's #hike: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN48... #NativePlants #FlintHills #Kansas #TallGrassPrairie 🌿
A photo of a line of dried grass and wildflowers, with a few green plants amid the sea of brown. Overhead the sky is blue with a variety of white clouds.
I have upcoming #Missouri #BookSignings in Rolla, #StLouis, Columbia, and #KansasCity - dates/locations at TheEverydayNaturalist.com (you can also order a signed #book there if you can't make it to an event!) RS OK #prairie #TallGrassPrairie #grassland #nature #nonfiction 🌿 💙📚
An orange, black, and white butterfly on a cluster of tiny yellow flowers in the middle of a wide, grassy prairie with a blue sky overhead.
A very fuzzy and large black and white moth with rust colored accents resting with its wings folded on a piece of vegetation.
A long black snake with many tiny cream colored speckles on a gravel road. Its body curves side to side and its forked tongue is sticking out.
A few treasures from #KonzaPrairie in east #Kansas #FlintHills today. My first monarch in 20+ years, my first sheepmoth, and my first speckled #kingsnake! #lepidoptera #insects #butterflies #moths #snakes #reptiles #herps #TallGrassPrairie #hiking #nature #wildlife #animals 🌿
Another visit with the yellow garden spider in the prairie! Gotta take advantage while it's still there!
#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #spider
Bumble be on a sawtooth sunflower.
Stiff goldenrod
A very yellow prairie during golden hour.
Me, looking out over the prairie.
"You belong among the wildflowers...
...you belong somewhere you feel free"
#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants
Smolenski park prairie restoration.
Evening primrose standing above the sea of goldenrod
Thick-headed fly
Monarch butterfly on goldenrod
I had some extra photos from my recent walks in the prairie that I didn't know if or when I'd share them, but now seems like a good time.
#prairie #prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie #butterfly #nativeplants
Katydid on goldenrod
Black saddlebags dragonfly on goldenrod.
Monarch butterfly on goldenrod.
Ruby meadowhawk on an old stem.
More life in the Smolenski prairie restoration. A katydid, black saddlebags dragonfly, many monarchs, and a ruby meadowhawk.
#prairie #prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie #insects
One more set. Yellow garden spider, Smolenski prairie.
#yellowgardenspider #spider #prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration 🕷️
Why yes, I did go back over to the prairie to visit the yellow garden spider this morning!
#yellowgardenspider #spider #prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration 🕷️
It’s a beautiful day for a seed harvest
📍Nachusa Grasslands
#thenatureconservancy #prairie #plantmoreprairie #illinois #tallgrassprairie
Saw-tooth sunflower
Grasshopper sitting on the trail.
A shot of the prairie, mainly blue vervain in this area.
Monarch butterfly on goldenrod.
Today's prairie hike.
#tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #prairie #wisconsin
More photos from the prairie.
#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants
This orb weaver made a web between native grasses.
Pearl crescent
Sawtooth sunflower
Thick-headed fly
Another fantastic evening wandering around the Smolenski park prairie restoration!
#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants #pollinators #butterfly #sunflower #MorePrairiePlease
30 seconds in the Smolenski Park prairie restoration.
#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nature
Milkweed tussock moth caterpillars on common milkweed.
My first penstemon digitalis sighting in the Smolenski prairie! I missed the flowering stage this summer.
Bumble bees and rosinweed.
Blue vervain
More photos from this evening's hike around the Smolenski Park prairie restoration.
#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants #wisconsin
Indiangrass
Sweet black-eyed susan (rudbeckia subtomentosa)
Rosinweed, bumbles bees, and soldier beetles.
Big bluestem and indiangrass
I picked a good evening to hike the Smolenski Park prairie restoration. Trails were freshly mowed!
#prairie #tallgrassprairie #prairierestoration #nativeplants
A colorful prairie restoration, featuring a large patch of blue vervain.
A cloudy prairie hike this morning. You can tell we're really getting into that late-summer goldenrod stage now. I'm already missing the mid-summer blooms!
#prairie #tallgrassprairie #nativeplants #wisconsin
A dickcissel pointedly ignoring me as if I were asking it out on a date.
- Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
#bird #birds #kansas #nature #tallgrassprairie #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography
I come across an abundance of #ghostpipe every year and have only ever admired it...I harvested some this year to make a tincture..Still researching it's many uses #tallgrassprairie #Manitoba
Asclepias tuberosa
Monarda fistulosa
ambush bug on rudbeckia hirta
Three widow skimmers. There were dozens, all aligned in the same direction with the sun.
One more round of photos from yesterday's hike around the Smolenski park prairie restoration.
#prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie #prairie #nativeplants
More photos from today's hike around the Smolenski park prairie restoration.
#nativeplants #prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie
Lots of monarchs in the Smolenski Park prairie restoration this evening! You love to see it!
#nativeplants #prairierestoration #tallgrassprairie #butterflies 🦋
Research site showing the mesocosm study to assess the effect of genotypic richness, drought and mycorrhizal association in Andropogon gerardii.
There were significant interactions between genotype and drought treatment (a), and between genotype and genotypic richness (b) on the above-ground biomass of Andropogon gerardii in 2012.
【EDITOR'S CHOICE】
Effect of genotypic richness, drought and mycorrhizal associations on productivity and functional traits of a dominant #C4Grass
#TallgrassPrairie | #AndropogonGerardii | #GeneticDiversity| #Mutualism
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