More Prairie Fall

I'm not talkative this morning, so I'll just post some photos from Sunday.  It was such a pretty day.

Mountain Bluebirds frolicking about at an old corral

Aspen

Moose Mountain Creek

Gooseberry Lake

There's a juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron  standing in the water

Here's another one, intently hunting near Moose Mountain Dam

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Fall Scenes

I went looking for Fall Colour yesterday and found some in the prairie pothole area north of Stoughton (~ 50 kms north of where I live)

This is prime waterfowl breeding region

Lots of small sloughs, ponds, marshes surrounded by grain fields or in some cases, especially in the Ocean Man Reserve, original prairie.

The cattails and reeds grew high this year

An abandoned farm along Moose Mountain Creek.

More photos to come