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Photo of the Week – November 4, 2011

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This is an old photo of a young bird, taken with a cheap point-and-shoot digital camera in the middle of a bright sunny day.  Apologies for the photo quality.  However, you have to admit the photo has some appeal.  I particularly love those eyebrows…

Young bird along Central Platte River, Nebraska

One of the reasons for posting this photo is to get input from the birders out there.  Since I took this photo in 2005, I’ve wondered what species of bird it is.  I have a guess, which I’ll withhold until I see if there’s a consensus that forms among the replies.  Not knowing for sure has been bugging me for a long time.

The photo was taken in south-central Nebraska, about 9 miles southwest of Grand Island, along the Central Platte River.  It was in a brushy prairie with a fair number of mid-sized trees (mostly eastern red cedar and white mulberry) nearby.

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A Slide Show of Nebraska Nature Photos

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Caterpillar on false gromwell. Griffith Prairie - north of Aurora, Nebraska.

This fall, I was honored to be the banquet speaker at the first annual conference of the Nebraska Natural Legacy Project (Nebraska’s state wildlife action plan).  For the event, I presented a slide show that I hoped would showcase the diversity and beauty in Nebraska’s natural landscapes.  During the last several weeks, I’ve had several requests from people to make the slide show available on-line.

Well, I’ve done that, but I rearranged the show a little and separated it into five separate short videos that are each about 3 minutes long.  If you’re interested, you can view each of them by clicking on the links below.  They can also be accessed from the home page of this blog, either by clicking on “Photos” at the top of the page or by following the links under “Pages” on the right side of the page.

I hope you enjoy them.

Invertebrates

Landscapes

Plants

Vertebrates

Winter