Faulkner
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Took my camera with me on the tractor while doing some bush hogging around the fence rows and got a few wildlife pictures I thought worth sharing. Living in the Arkansas Ozarks and seeing the abundance of wildlife never gets old for me.
I had a roadrunner dart out across in front of me then duck under the barbed wire fence into the next field. Once through the fence he just stood by pretty close and watched me drive by on the tractor.
I noticed several Mississippi kites circling overhead once I started cutting brush and captured this picture as one flew overhead. They feed mostly of insects which they capture in flight like dragonflies, but also eat cicada, grasshoppers, and other crop-damaging insects which makes them handy to have around.
I had to be quick on the draw with the camera to catch this pair as they trotted off down an old path that led back into some timber in between a two pastures.
A little later I spotted another momma doe with a set of twins. They never seemed to get too excited as I eased along on the tractor and actually let me get up pretty close to them as momma trotted off.
There is a spot on the back side of the pasture I was cutting in that I suspect at one time was an old home place. There's no evidence of a building any longer, but there are two big pecan trees and several large crepe myrtle trees that cause me to suspect a home once stood here. I pulled up under the shade of one of the big pecan trees and shut off the tractor to get a drink of cool water and noticed several hummingbirds were working over the crepe myrtle trees. I pulled out the camera hoping to get a shot and one eventually landed close enough for a picture.
I had a roadrunner dart out across in front of me then duck under the barbed wire fence into the next field. Once through the fence he just stood by pretty close and watched me drive by on the tractor.
I noticed several Mississippi kites circling overhead once I started cutting brush and captured this picture as one flew overhead. They feed mostly of insects which they capture in flight like dragonflies, but also eat cicada, grasshoppers, and other crop-damaging insects which makes them handy to have around.
I had to be quick on the draw with the camera to catch this pair as they trotted off down an old path that led back into some timber in between a two pastures.
A little later I spotted another momma doe with a set of twins. They never seemed to get too excited as I eased along on the tractor and actually let me get up pretty close to them as momma trotted off.
There is a spot on the back side of the pasture I was cutting in that I suspect at one time was an old home place. There's no evidence of a building any longer, but there are two big pecan trees and several large crepe myrtle trees that cause me to suspect a home once stood here. I pulled up under the shade of one of the big pecan trees and shut off the tractor to get a drink of cool water and noticed several hummingbirds were working over the crepe myrtle trees. I pulled out the camera hoping to get a shot and one eventually landed close enough for a picture.
