Riveroflife

Pale purple coneflowers and Ozark primrose in bloom. About 20 minutes from ROLF.

This picture is from a year ago tomorrow; taken from the Tree Top Hideaway looking southeast.

One hundred  Cliff Swallow nests hang from Blair Bridge, about 4 miles downstream from River of Life Farm. On this day in May, 2009, I tried to photograph them coming and going to their mud nests.

Here is a picture of both the male and female bluebirds in the house closest to the falls.

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One juvenile (mine) from the Cedar Chest and one adult ~ Pilgrim’s ~ from lookout point. Thanks for the contributions all. I always welcome fellow outdoor lovers pictures and comments.

This guy came everyday about 5-6 times to hunt insects under the from porch roof, and wasn’t bothered at all by my walking around on the porch. This was mid-May 2009.

I took this on May 22 from the Cedar Chest overlooking the North Fork of the White. Pretty sure by shape of bill that it is a juvenile bald eagle. They are nesting on a bluff downstream; this is a crop out of a larger picture.

On a fence in County Road 370.

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These pictures were taken from the Tree Top Loft on April 20th, 2009 with a 600mm f/4 and 1.4TC which yields 840mm on a Canon 5D MK II. This bird was in a pine grove close to a few hickory trees. The are really beautiful against the leafing out trees.

When I first started using a good DSLR and long lens. the Red-headed woodpecker landed on a pine tree about 20 feet from where I was standing in the Mountain Log Lookout. I took about 50 shots of him and got a few I liked. I had not looked at them for over 2 years; but now I see how clear this picture was of this beautiful bird. These woodpeckers are more common to the open country, and mixed open country and woods of southwest Missouri and Central Missouri, but I have seen a few at River of Life Farm. The male and female look almost the same which is not usual for woodpeckers, where the male wears the red cockade.