Approaching Rain
April 30, 2017 - Clouds roll in over the pond at the Harold Lear Sanctuary maintained by the Smoky Hills Audubon Society, Salina. The lak...
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Intruder
April 29, 2017 - A calf, fighting freedom and full of angst, bolts past wild mustangs as it fruitlessly seeks to solve a maze of pasture...
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Working For Bird-Friendly Habitat
April 28, 2017 - Dan Baffa of the Smoky Hills Audubon Society takes a close look at the ground to check the seeding of native plants at t...
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Home on the Range
April 27, 2017 - Although it lacks occupants, maintenance and paint, this abandoned, two-story farmhouse still commands attention, and a...
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Green Again, And Quickly
April 25, 2017 - Refreshed by fire only a couple of weeks ago, this tallgrass prairie west of Matfield Green, Kan., experiences a flush o...
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House Peeping
April 22, 2017 - Dan Baffa, right, drops the lid of bluebird house No. 7 to reveal three blue eggs, momentarily unattended, to participan...
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Flowers Mark the Trail
April 19, 2017 - Ted Zerger, a volunteer and member of the Smoky Hills Audubon Society, tends a flower bed at the kiosk that welcomes vis...
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Chicken Dancer
April 12, 2017 - A male Greater Prairie Chicken dances at a communal breeding ground, called lek, in central Kansas. The prairie chicken...
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Showing His Stuff
April 12, 2017 - A male Greater Prairie Chicken seeks to arouse the interest of hens at a lek near Cheyenne Bottoms near Great Bend, Kan.
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Jumping
April 12, 2017 - Performing in hopes of finding a mate, a Greater Prairie Chicken jumps at a lek near Cheyenne Bottoms in central Kansas.
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Confrontation
April 11, 2017 - Male Greater Prairie Chickens face-off at dawn at a lek near Cheyenne Bottoms, northeast of Great Bend, Kan. The lek is...
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After the Burn
April 08, 2017 - Blackened by fire, a tallgrasss prairie west of Matfield Green, Kan., prepares for regrowth and another season of cattle...
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Singing Barber
April 06, 2017 - In between customers, barber Richard Stone plays his guitar and sings on a bench in front of his shop in downtown Cotton...
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Bountiful River
April 05, 2017 - The Cottonwood River, swollen by Chase County rains of 5 to 7 inches in recent days, spills over the dam at Cottonwood F...
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Artful Course
April 05, 2017 - A jogger passes in front of the mural-decorated Fire Station No. 2 on Santa Fe Avenue in Salina. The mural depicts local...
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Road? Where?
April 04, 2017 - A low-water, concrete crossing is submerged in the rushing water of Diamond Creek south of Diamond Springs, Kan. The cre...
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Full-Flowing Falls
April 03, 2017 - A torrent of water cascades over the falls below the dam at the Chase State Fishing Lake west of Cottonwood Falls, Kan....
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