Just before dark I watches a pair of Barred Owls hunting in my front and side yard. I had lost sight of them until 5:55 PM when I saw this one land on a T-Post on a garden fence:
Archive for January, 2015
Added to Links — Patrick Caple’s No trail Required Blog
Posted in Caves and Waterfalls, General, Mountain Scenery, The River, tagged No trail required, Patrick Caple on January 31, 2015| 1 Comment »
A Red Headed Woodpecker picking up Acorns
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, near Parthenon, pick up. acorns, red headed woodpecker, redheaded, Redheaded woodpecker on January 31, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Saw this many times yesterday in the backyard and got a few long distance photos, that I cropped. I doesn’t take long to remember how beautiful RHW’s are:
He/she finally landed in a tree on a dead branch:
Richland Creek Wilderness — 1/23/15
Posted in Mountain Scenery, mountains, The River, Wild Birds, tagged 1/23/15, falling water creek, Iceledo, north entrance modifications, Northern Cardinal, Northern Cardinals, richland creek, richland creek wilderness, Richland Wilderness, south entrance road on January 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I visited Richland Wilderness on Friday afternoon. I got out and walked a bit on the south end of the Creek. The Witch Hazel is in bloom and very fragrant now. My favorite place after 50 years. It is still wild. with no trails; except a rough trail blazed to Richland Creek from the small camping spot above the bridge on the South side of the creek, below the confluence with the Devil’s Fork. There has been a lot of road construction on the north entrance; I don’t like what they have done; it will take 20 years to regenerate what they destroyed. Saw a bunch of Northern Cardinals at the re-routed entrance also.
The southern entrance remains the same expect a few more houses each year. The south entrance road is badly washboarded for 7 miles. The northern entrance has been re-routed, best I can tell (up near Iceledo Gap). There has been very heavy logging near the north entrance also. All in all, it was a beautiful day with highs about 44F. Left through the south entrance road paralleling Falling Water Creek:
Out of Focus — White Winged Crow while taking Elk photos
Posted in mammals, Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Boxley Valley, elk, partially albino, White Winged Crows on January 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Im always looking for photographs of White Winged Crows but, I guess I need to concentrate on stalking Elk to get them. The crow was between me and the Elk and I didn’t know I had one until I uploaded the photos:
Sunset; last two evenings
Posted in Weather, tagged Arkansas, murray road, parthenon, sunset 1/20, sunsets 1/19 on January 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Hazy morning in Jasper, Arkansas and a head-on photo of a Red Shouldered Hawk
Posted in Towns, Weather, Wild Birds, tagged 2015, Arkansas, hawk, head-on, Jan 20, Jasper, Red-shouldered on January 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Pair of Juvenile Bald Eagles on the Little Buffalo River
Posted in Mountain Scenery, The River, Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Bald Eagle, bald eagles, juvenile, Little Buffalo River, parthenon on January 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Using my favorite lens, a Canon EF300L IS f/2.8 with a 1.4X Extender on a Canon 7D, I got this photo of two Bald Eagles (juveniles; about 2-4 years old is my guess) from 200 yards on the Little Buffalo River yesterday. My best guess is the eagle on the left is a female. Next year they will probably have white heads and tails.
Trip to Steel Creek on the Buffalo below Ponca — 1/14 at 3 PM
Posted in Mountain Scenery, mountains, The River, tagged Bee Bluff, Boston Mountains, Buffalo River, clear, high, icicles, near Ponca, Roark Bluff, Steel Creek, water on January 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »
There were long icicles around and about Roark Bluff at Steel Creek today and water was still high enough to float today. The ice in the sickles appeared aqua-blue in the late light today or maybe it was minerals. The temperature started at 15F at 6:30 AM but rose to 50F by 2 PM; beautiful day in the mountains:
A Cold and Frosty morning in the High Ozarks
Posted in Mountain Scenery, mountains, tagged Ponca Wilderness Area. Arkansas on January 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Life and Wildlife along the Little Buffalo River 