Many thanks to Alex Ezell for pointing Miguel and I to the current location of this beautiful breeding-plumaged Ruddy Turnstone that was spending time at Riverlands Bird Migratory Sanctuary this past weekend.
1000th Post! Ruddy Turnstone
"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 