Cool Nature Photos

[MossRoad]

More steel mills in Burns Harbor to the left.

 

[IrishLoader]

These were shot at least 10 years ago at Land Between the Lakes. The bison are protected but the elk not so much, yummy. I have not yet had the privilege of being drawn for a tag but I have been the lucky recipient of some jerky from one, pretty tasty. These guys (elk) are protected while on site, but if one happens to go on walkabout off the res provided you have a tag...

 

[IrishLoader]

Forgot to add:

Land Between the Lakes – National Recreation Area

 

[EddieWalker]

I've read about the elk in Kentucky, but I didn't know there where Bison there too.

 

[IrishLoader]

I've read about the elk in Kentucky, but I didn't know there where Bison there too.

Elk & Bison Prairie – Land Between the Lakes

Historically they were hunted nearly to extinction as many know and just reintroduced twenty or so years ago here in the Bluegrass. There are plenty of names that abound through out Kentucky referencing these two animals like Buffalo Trace Distillery or Elk Creek( hamlet in Spencer Co.)and Buffalo KY. All that aside there will be one @$$ clown out there that will claim there are no Buffalo in Kentucky, unfortunately they are correct in splitting the hair as it were and these are Bison.

 

[Fuddy1952]

View attachment 741270I don't remember when I shot this, just looked like I felt at the time I guess, sort of spoke to me.

I never knew anyone photographed top of my head!

 

[dj1701]

Seems my duck tube was a sucess.

 

[MossRoad]

Elk & Bison Prairie – Land Between the Lakes

Historically they were hunted nearly to extinction as many know and just reintroduced twenty or so years ago here in the Bluegrass. There are plenty of names that abound through out Kentucky referencing these two animals like Buffalo Trace Distillery or Elk Creek( hamlet in Spencer Co.)and Buffalo KY. All that aside there will be one @$$ clown out there that will claim there are no Buffalo in Kentucky, unfortunately they are correct in splitting the hair as it were and these are Bison.

I wouldn't say bison have been 'reintroduced' to Kentucky. They're in enclosures. They aren't allowed to roam, unlike the elk, which even have a hunting season.

https://fw.ky.gov/Hunt/Documents/Elk/2020-2021ElkReport.pdf

When I was a kid there was a buffalo (bison) farm about 3 miles west of here in South Bend, IN, and another one about 15 miles to the north of us in Michigan. They raised them for meat. There's still a bison farm about 50 miles to our southwest. I'm sure there are probably bison in just about every state. But they don't run free anywhere east of the Mississippi river as far as I know.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

Tails are overrated anyway

 

[Bill Guenthner]

Elk & Bison Prairie – Land Between the Lakes

Historically they were hunted nearly to extinction as many know and just reintroduced twenty or so years ago here in the Bluegrass. There are plenty of names that abound through out Kentucky referencing these two animals like Buffalo Trace Distillery or Elk Creek( hamlet in Spencer Co.)and Buffalo KY. All that aside there will be one @$$ clown out there that will claim there are no Buffalo in Kentucky, unfortunately they are correct in splitting the hair as it were and these are Bison.

"Reintroduced" implies an effort to establish a natural population, as was done very successfully with turkeys and with elk. There are no wild buffalo or bison in Kentucky. There are technically giraffes and kangaroos in Kentucky as well.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sunset today from Indiana Dunes State Park in Chesterton, IN.

Indiana steel mills to the left of the sun, Chicago skyline to the right. Click on it and zoom in.

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Why is East Chicago south of South Chicago? And why is Michigan city in Indiana and not Michigan?

 

[Cycledude]

Seems my duck tube was a sucess.

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Very interesting ! what is it made from ?

 

[dj1701]

Very interesting ! what is it made from ?

straw and field grass wrapped in chicken wire.

 

[MossRoad]

Why is East Chicago south of South Chicago? And why is Michigan city in Indiana and not Michigan?

East Chicago is in Indiana, so it's east of Chicago and Illinois, even though it's more south than east of Chicago.

Originally, Indiana didn't touch Lake Michigan. Congress moved the state line 10 miles north of the southern point of Lake Michigan when Indiana became a state in 1816 to give Indiana a port access on the lake.

Michigan City was the terminus of the Michigan Road, one of the first roads built in Indiana. It terminated at Lake Michigan, hence Michigan City.

Michigan Road - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Indiana Territory Boundary Line

www.in.gov

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Reminds me that I need to go out and check to see if Dorothy, the mallard hen is back. She has hatched a clutch every year for five years now in the atrium outside of my office. We put out a wading pool, for the ducklings to use, until they get a few weeks old, and then capture all the ducklings, and put them in their wading pool in the back of a pickup, and transport them about a mile to more natural waters.

The first year Dorothy was really upset by the whole ordeal. Now she just circles above the truck until we get to the water, and put the ducklings down. Then she lands about ten yards away and quacks until they all gather on her, before she takes them into the water.

 

[Cycledude]

straw and field grass wrapped in chicken wire.

Did you build more than one with the same results ?
Approximately what size is the opening ?

 

[dj1701]

Did you build more than one with the same results ?
Approximately what size is the opening ?

No, I just built one. The opening is between 12" and 15" can't remember what I went with.

 

[TIMMYDUCK]

Pedestrian’s on the tractor path again .

 

[Fuddy1952]

Bear on right has ear tags?

 

[TIMMYDUCK]

Yes , she had been caught twice already .
She is such a little scamp .