One of the joys of living in Missouri is its location within a major North American flyway. Each spring and fall, large flocks of waterfowl...
Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 December 2014
Friday, 12 December 2014
Spring in December
13:54
Partial sunshine and mild air pushed into central Missouri today. Down at the Forum Nature Area, it looked like winter but felt more like s...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
December Gray
17:05
A milky-gray dome stretched above central Missouri today, diffusing the sunlight and dulling whatever color is left in the mid December land...
Monday, 8 December 2014
Birding the Wastewater Wetlands
05:14
Columbia, Missouri, has a state-of-the-art, eco-friendly wastewater treatment facility, consisting of a chain of wetlands in the lower Perch...
Saturday, 6 December 2014
The Suet Platoon
10:25
As the dark, cold days of December envelop Missouri, I add suet to our backyard handouts. While the chunks of high calorie food do not incr...
Thursday, 4 December 2014
White-Crowned Sparrows
05:50
Summer residents of Alaska, northern Canada and the alpine tundra of North America's western mountains, white-crowned sparrows winter ac...
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Raptors in the Cold Sunshine
14:00
Clear skies and cold air enticed me down to the wooded hills and open farmlands south and east of Columbia this morning. Besides, a steady ...
Monday, 24 November 2014
Refuge Closed for Killing
09:15
On this cold, gray, November morning in central Missouri, I headed down to Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area on the Missouri River floodplain, ...
Saturday, 22 November 2014
Two Cities, Two Owls
07:11
Great horned owls are the nocturnal avian predators along the Colorado Front Range, feasting on prey as large as skunks, geese and raccoons....
Saturday, 8 November 2014
Return of the Bark Birds
06:00
A pair of brown creepers returned to our central Missouri neighborhood this week and will be observed on occasion throughout the colder mont...
Saturday, 1 November 2014
Football Weather
12:36
As we move deeper into autumn, the term "football weather" is frequently heard. In many cases, it is used to define unpleasant co...
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Conceding Victory to Nature
11:04
Since moving to Columbia, Missouri in the late 1990s, we have watched as the Parks Department attempted to establish a prairie at Forum Natu...
Sunday, 19 October 2014
First White-throats in Missouri
11:48
As our autumn colors begin to peak, I encountered the first white-throated sparrows of the season at the Fourm Nature Area, in Columbia. As...
Thursday, 16 October 2014
October Splendor at Eagle Bluffs
12:35
It was a beautiful autumn morning at Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area on the Missouri River floodplain. Under bright blue skies, fall colors ...
Saturday, 27 September 2014
Cuivre River State Park
06:12
The West Fork of the Cuivre River rises south of Benton City, Missouri, while its North Fork rises west of Bowling Green; these primary fork...
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Eagles in the Fog
05:50
Following a chilly night in Central Missouri, banks of dense fog enveloped Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area yesterday morning. As the fog beg...
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
White Snakeroot
05:20
By late summer, white snakeroot begins to appear in our flower beds and along our wood borders in central Missouri, adorning the property th...
Thursday, 4 September 2014
A Focused Killer
08:37
Wildlife was not especially abundant or conspicuous at Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area, in central Missouri, on this hazy, late summer mornin...
Saturday, 16 August 2014
After the Rain
08:30
Following a night of rain with intermittent thunderstorms, we headed down to the Forum Nature Area this morning. A mild west breeze had dev...
Friday, 15 August 2014
Honeyvine Milkweed
05:10
Walking through our Missouri property yesterday, I noticed a number of vines climbing through one of our eastern redcedars. As I started to...
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