WOW ! What a contrast in color ! Click to Enlarge photos. Their are about 100 of them and they are really LOUD!:
Posts Tagged ‘Jasper’
Red Winged Blackbirds on Just opened Monarda or wild Bee Balm
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Blackbirds, cedar waxwing, Jasper, red winged blackbirds, Redheaded woodpecker, winged on May 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
No Purple Martins yet … but a few Tree Swallows on a warm guard rail
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Jasper, Tree Swallows on March 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Before all swallows, (Barn, Bank, Cliff, and Purple comes a pair of Tree swallows, seen just outside Jasper on a guard rail this morning:
Hooded Merganser on Boxley Mill Pond last Saturday in the wind
Posted in Mountain Scenery, mountains, Uncategorized, Weather, Wild Birds, tagged Boston Mountains, Boxley Pond, Hooded Merganser, ice, Jasper, paior, parthenon, snow on February 20, 2015| 3 Comments »
Not a common duck to see (at least to me) on Boxley Pond last Saturday. Since last Saturday, it’s been so cold all week and I struggled to town on Wednesday. The ice was melted on Highway 327, but up at higher altitudes, like climbing out of my place, it was very icy. I am also including a photo from AR 327:
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 »
More photos from yesterday — Buffalo River at Steel Creek
Posted in Mountain Scenery, The River, tagged Arkansas, BNR, Buffalo National River, Jasper, Steel Creek on October 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Some in this series are HDR’s; notice the 200′ high Roark Bluff and the coloring sweet gums in front:
Drive down to Steel Creek
Bluff below Bee Bluff (HDR)
Buffalo River (HDR)
Roark Bluff (HDR)
A beautiful mid-August morning
Posted in Mountain Scenery, mountains, Weather, tagged Arkansas, August 2014, Jasper, sun up on August 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I took this photo yesterday morning from the northern Boston Mountains looking north-east toward the Ozarks of Arkansas and Missouri. The heralding of a hot day to come.
The beautiful Blue-Winged Warbler
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged ar, Arkansas, Blue winged warbler, Boston Mountains, Jasper, parthenon on May 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I ran into the male Blue-Winged Yellow Warbler very early this morning; and had to use a high ISO setting to photograph him while he was gleaning insects from leaves. The high ISO setting leaves the photographs grainy. Not only does this guy have pronounced blueish-gray wings but he also wears a black mask.
They forage mostly in upper half of trees and shrubs and probes dead leaf clusters in winter. Often hangs upside down.
NW Arkansas is the southernmost section of their breeding grounds.
Brightly colored but easily overlooked. A bird of shrubland and old fields, the Blue-winged Warbler expanded its breeding grounds northward throughout the 20th century. They have a make a nest that is an open cup of grasses, bark and dead leaves. Leaves may form cap over eggs. Usually on or near ground.
female American Redstart (warbler) nest building
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged American Redstart, Amerrican Redstart, Arkansas, Boston Mountains, Jasper, nest, parthenon, warbler, wood warbler on May 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I watched her, a female American Redstart (a wood warbler) on what looks like day 2-3 of building her nest. She was relentless for the entire 2 hours I watched. I knew photographs would be difficult. There was shade and sun behind, she pulled bark of the vine inside the a bushy Box Elder. I had a slow lens at f / 5.6. Autofocus was nearly impossible. It was a last season dry vine and she instinctively knew how to strip the off strings from the shell of the old vine. Mouthful after mouthful she flew to a nest she was building about 25 feet off the ground in an Elm tree 75-90 feet away:
Ox-eye daisies seem early this year
Posted in Wildflowers, tagged Arkansas, boston, daisies, Jasper, Mountains, near, ox eye daisy, parthenon on May 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Weird ! In a year where everything seemed late and then stayed in bloom along time; The highest and coldest areas go the Boston Mountain range some Red-buds are still at peak. Ox-eye daisies usually bloom May 15 – June 1. So this is unusual.
Ox eye Daisy
First Scissor-tail Flycatcher photos in 2014
Posted in Mountain Scenery, Weather, Wild Birds, tagged 2014, Arkansas, Boston Mountains, Jasper, scissor, scissor tail, state bird of oklahoma, tail flyctacher on May 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »
This Scissor-tail Flycatcher (State Bird of Oklahoma) arrived in Jasper, Arkansas after a migration up from the southland about 2 weeks ago. He and his mate established a territory next to a field just north of the town of Jasper on Highway 7, on an old fence. Photo taken by my good friend Jan, as she was in the passenger seat and the bird was on the right side fence. North of this field is an expansive wooded area where I believe they a nesting. I love the salmon color on the sides of their gray buff breast !
I have seen him at least a dozen times in 2-3 weeks but have been unable to capture him, until this morning at 8:30 AM; today I used a Canon 70D and a Canon 400mm f/5.6 lens. If you can’t tell in these photographs, he drags a tail about 18″ long behind him when he files and is really spectacular to watch:
Life and Wildlife along the Little Buffalo River 