Every spring, the sandhill cranes fly en masse from the Texas coast to Canada, Alaska and extreme eastern Siberia. A map of the migration looks like a lopsided hourglass with the narrows in central Nebraska. Fed by day with leftover field corn from the previous autumn's harvest, these cranes congregate by night in an amazing roost, a loud avian city of millions of primordial cries, … [Read more...]
Frozen Mayhem
The weight of about an inch of accumulated ice on its limbs became too much for the twisted trunk of a very old tree, which was nearly three feet in diameter where it busted. The rest of the tree (unseen, to the left of this 24 mm wide-angle view) still stood. It was allowed an opportunity to recover because of a large, nearly vertical branch that remained intact just below the location of the … [Read more...]
Lenticular over Dyrhólaey
Iceland abounds with grand landscapes, few more diverse and memorable than the basalt sea stacks, steep cliffs, river delta, and black-sand beaches of the Dyrholaey Nature Reserve. The nearest stack used to be a mile or more out to sea, but now connects to the mainland via this sand spit, thanks to sediments washed downriver from multiple eruptions and subglacial floods of the major volcano … [Read more...]
Sunset Silhouettes
Epitomizing the serenity of the moment, a blue heron rests as the golden light of an Oklahoma sunset reflects off surrounding lake waters. Minutes later, as daylight faded, the atmosphere offered a marvelously colored visual finale. 1 W Little Axe OK (2 Jan 7) Looking WSW 35.2363, -97.2232 … [Read more...]
Virga Sunset
Just a little while after another beautiful sunset scene blessed us, there came a late-stage eruption of wispy color tufts drawn from a crimson orb far beyond the horizon. The red–blue contrast was one of the most intense I've seen in a sunset, thanks to a clean wintertime sky and a display of virga-dropping high clouds that would be remarkable at any time of day. Virga simply is precipitation … [Read more...]
Flooded Forest
Inundated woodlands contained 5–10-knot water current throughout. Imagine trying to swim through this churning, obstacle-festooned, muddy mess! Water level was about 7 feet high in the trees, as viewed from atop a railroad embankment. 1 SE Farley MO (10 Jul 93) Looking W 39.2642, -94.8164 … [Read more...]
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