Found near the road at Quivira NWR, this American Bittern cooperated a bit until it slinked back into the grasses.
2022 Kansas Trip – American Bittern
"What a thousand acres of Silphiums looked like when they tickled the bellies of the buffalo is a question never again to be answered, and perhaps not even asked." -Aldo Leopold
A Thousand Acres of Silphiums 