A parade of tractors in Kiester, Minnesota.
Sundown over Woodworth, North Dakota
Photo by Rick Bohn
TULUVERS
A preening great egret
This bird was nearly wiped out in the US in the 1800s due to fashion’s demand for its plumes. Conservationists stopped the slaughter and protected the great egret which became the symbol of the National Audubon Society.
Common mullein
Mullein stems once were dipped in tallow to make torches. It is also called flannel leaf due to the texture of the leaves or "Quaker rouge” in reference to the practice of reddening cheeks by rubbing them with a mullein leaf.
Yellowstone
Photos by Greg & Terry Tellier
It was a dark and stormy winter.
Is that what we'll be saying?
A Baltimore oriole contemplates leaving my yard, which it will do by the end of the first week of September.
A white-faced meadowhawk.
Where hummingbirds hang out.
At the Henderson Hummingbird Hurrah!
This country has a monarchy, too.
Found on the walls of the school in Henderson, Minnesota
A bad bill that doesn't involve Congress.
Karen Swenson of Henderson, Minnesota, took this photo of a rose-breasted grosbeak missing its upper bill. Migration is a perilous journey. If you're not at the top of your game, it's even tougher. That said, I recall seeing a one-legged chickadee in my yard for two springs. It had survived two of our Minnesota winters. I'd never doubt the bird's ability to survive, but I will keep my fingers crossed for it.
Things found at the end of Bryce Gaudian's camera.
A Zeiss birding trip to Germany, Hungary and Austria
I was pleased to be part of this wonderful trip sponsored by Zeiss. Stephen Ingraham provided these photos.
This and that and that and this.
Rick Bohn took this intriguing photo in North Dakota.
Ric McArthur found a use for my book. It makes a swell mousepad.
This and the following two photos are by Greg and Terry Tellier.
Turkey vultures
Photo taken by Randy Chirpich at Budd Lake in Fairmont, Minnesota.
British Colombia
Photos by Greg & Terry Tellier
The cicada killer is a busy wasp.
Ric McArthur sent these photos of a cicada killer putting a paralyzed cicada into a nest burrow. The cicada killer lays her eggs on cicadas.
A North Dakota sunset
Photo by Rick Bohn.
