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Photo of the Week – December 30, 2010
I photographed this juvenile wolf spider on an 18 degree (Fahrenheit) day in the middle of the winter. At the time, I was walking along a frozen creek, admiring the hoar frost on the surface and...
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Last Gasp of Summer
Below are photos taken a week or so ago from a prairie here in Aurora, Nebraska. It’s the time of year when everything is preparing for winter. Most plants are done blooming and entering dormancy. A...
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Why Are We Spending So Much Time Studying Birds?
Believe it or not, I really do like birds. (And thus starts another blog post destined to draw the ire of my ornithologist friends…) But here’s the thing. I just read yet another study of grassland...
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Revised Slideshows of Nebraska Nature
At the request of many of you, I’ve added captions to the slideshow photos I posted last November. Those slideshows can always be found from the home page of this blog (under the Photography Page)....
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Platte River Prairies Field Day – July 13, 2012
PLEASE JOIN US for a Platte River Prairies Field Day on July 13, 2012. The day will include a range of activities, aimed to introduce relative newcomers to what prairies are all about and to allow...
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Photo of the Week – May 30, 2014
I made another trip up to Griffith Prairie last week. It looked pretty much as it had the week before – still lots of ragwort blooming – but the photographs I returned with were very different. This...
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For many of you, the snake photo below will elicit a strong visceral response. The spider photo below might do the same. While it varies in intensity, humans seem to have an innate fear of both...
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