A pleasant surprise of this spring trip to Quivira and Cheyenne Bottoms was finally getting nice close looks and some respectable photos of the tundra breeding Baird’s Sandpiper.
2022 Kansas Trip – Baird’s Sandpiper
"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 