Good morning!
We’re back in Kansas today – just for the day – so we can catch some early spring visitors before we return to Africa with Albatrossity next week. Then it’s back to the Alps with BigJimSlade!
It seems like it’s either feast or famine with On the Road. Toward the end of last year, after I let you know we were running low on posts, you guys sent in 45 posts in December alone, and 15 more in January. That’s at least 3 months worth of OTR posts, and just recently we made it through all the December submissions. We are now we’re into the January submissions, which is great!
We have posts in the queue for this week and next, so this would be a great time to submit your photos.
Albatrossity
As winter comes to a close and spring teasingly peeks around the corner, I thought it would be good to take a break from the Africa posts and showcase some our local critters. We’ll get back to Ngorongoro Crater next week, but for this week, we’re back in Kansas, Toto.
I live near a large US Army base, Fort Riley, that periodically rattles our windows with artillery training and helicopter flyovers. But it is also home to a herd of about 200 Elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis), a large subspecies of the critter that is known as the Red Deer in Europe (where the critters we call “moose” are called “elk”). This herd is not fenced, and so the animals can roam freely off the base. I found this group of 19-20 near our local airport, about ½ mile off base. Nowadays we tend to think of Elk as creatures of the Mountain West, but historically they were on the prairies in large numbers. The mountains are a refugia for this species; they’d be happy to be prairie residents again! Click here for larger image.
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