Posted in Farms and Homes, General, The River, Towns, tagged boston, menu, Mountains, mulberry river, Oark Arkansas, Oark Country Store on December 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »
At the 105 year old Oark (yes Oark, no Z) Country Store on the upper Mulberry River in the southern Boston Mountains, with a decorated Cedar Tree and a beautiful floatable River just downstream at “Wolf Pen” access. Best burgers in Arkansas and beautiful old time atmosphere:
Posted in Weather, Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Boxley Mill Pond, Boxley Pond, Buffalo River, canon 7d, male, wood duck, Wood Ducks on December 24, 2014| 2 Comments »
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Today, Christmas Eve day, I drove by the Boxley Mill Pond and saw a pair of Wood Ducks, and was only able to photograph the male using a Canon 7D and a Canon EF 300L IS f/2.8 Lens with a 1.4 TC yielding 420mm on the 7D’s crop sensor or 672mm of magnification on this gloomy day. They represent to color of the holiday season to me – so colorful !!!
Male Wood Duck
Posted in Weather, Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Boston Mountains, bright sunshine, chased by crows, cloudy days, near dark, red tail hawk, weather station on December 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »
It has been so dreary around here ! We did get 2 hours of bright sunshine yesterday just before dark. In fact, if you have found my weather station “out”, it is because we have had 6-7 cloudy days, and it is solar powered. Photographed this hawk being chased by crows late 12/21/14:
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged american robin, Boston Mountains, crab apples, parthenon on December 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, hunting frogs, Little Buffalo River, mated pair, Newton County, red shouldered hawk on December 18, 2014| 1 Comment »
This mated pair working along a small creek which flows into the Little Buffalo River yesterday prior to the rains – they ate about 6-8 frogs. Fun to watch them to work.
Click to enlarge the hawk with frog photo.
Posted in Weather, Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Boston Mountains, Leucistic, Red-Tailed Hawk on December 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Leucistic or Leucism (Leukism — sometimes referred to as “partial or incomplete albino”).
Posted in Mountain Scenery, The River, tagged Arkansas, Buffalo River, december on December 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Weather, Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Boston Mountains, elongated roles, parthenon, pileated, pileated woodpecker, Wild Cherry tree, woodpecker on December 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite photos ! Shows a Mid-December Pileated Woodpecker and two holes he dug (both typical elongated Pileated Woodpecker holes). Taken last Sunday morning.
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged apples, cedar waxwing, Cedar Waxwings, crab apples, crazy, fermented, Newton County, over feeding, parthenon on December 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I have had some 20 Cedar Waxwings at this tree, at once; I think the apples ferment and it makes the birds drunk; flying into the ground, hitting the house, and generally acting crazy, the last photo has a waxwing the has stabbed a crabapple with his beak (which has a tiny hook or barb on the tip) and it throwing her head back to eat the fruit:
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged 2014; close up, Boston Mountains, Cuckoo, last June, near Parthenon, yellow billed cuckoo on December 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Took this photo of a Cuckoo and forgot to post is last June. I got to within 25-30′ of this juvenile, which is good because I rarely see them; just hear them all summer. Used a Canon 7D and a Canon EF300L IS 2/8 with a 1.4 TC yielding 420mm of lens:
Life and Wildlife along the Little Buffalo River 