A bit of the Flint Hills seen from the Kansas Turnpike. The hilltops of this tallgrass prairie are capped with cherty gravel.
A smartly patterned white-crowned sparrow.
Tussling trumpeter swans.
My father caller the great blue heron a shitepoke.
There is a heron head there somewhere.
Yellow-headed blackbird, red-winged blackbirds and brown-headed cowbirds.
Talking over a duck.
A blue jay perched on the ground.