Looking westward toward the mountains. Taken with the 70-400mm instead of my wide-angle.
Lots of noise in this one, since the lighting made this guy pretty dark. I tried to brighten things up to show some detail.
A Lark Bunting. One of the many hundreds of lark buntings we encountered on this outing.
My first real bird-in-flight shot, which was actually accidental. The little guy took off while I was capturing at high-speed and this showed up at the edge of the frame.
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It happened on the 21st! Only at the Western Pawnee Butte though.
The trail up to this butte was closed due to raptor nesting.
I really didn't expect this particular shot to turn out at all. After getting it on the larger monitor at home, I decided I liked the lighting.
A seed pod of a yucca plant.
Just a quick snap from inside the tent while curtains of rain were passing over us.
The two buttes really seem to come out of nowhere in the prairie. The windfarms are a more recent addition to the landscape.
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