One morning last June, while photographing wildflowers in the Sandhills blowout, I came upon a pair of ornate box turtles.
Tag: Animals
Winter Wildlife Tracking
By Monica Macoubrie Winter is normally a time for hibernation. Sleeping five to sometimes nine months out of the year, animals will lay coiled up and cozy in an underground burrow, a pile of leaves or, as humans do, under a heated blanket in our beds. The negative temperatures, face-stinging […]
A Historic Gathering: Whooping Cranes
In November 2021, photographer Eric Fowler witnessed an unprecedented and historic gathering of 46 whooping cranes on the Platte River.
One Trail
Two camera traps placed on a trail for the better part of two years in hopes of capturing a photo of a river otter photographed otters, bobcats, turtles, countless raccoons, birds and more.
The Dewy Bug Guy Is Back
When I first started working with Nebraskaland as a college student in the mid-1990s, my nickname among at least some of the magazine staff was “the dewy bug guy.”
Sleeping with the Cranes
Do you want to see the cranes or experience them? For the latter, you need to spend the night with the birds on the river.