10/7/17

I took this image while I was out on Konza Prairie last Sunday.  The Bison were visible from near the Barn.  They were on the move on the hillside and I was able to capture a few of them.  

1/30/17

So today's image ties in with Saturday's a bit as they were both taken on the same day.  It was a great outing to Konza Prairie and the Bison were quite cooperative at being seen and photographed.  The Bison are fenced in but it is more to keep people out and safe than for the Bison.  They respect the fence and never have issues with it, it does not have to be and is not electrified.  On this day they were grazing very close to the fence and made for great photos.  This image is a fairly good example of the difference between females and males as well.  The females, the two in the foreground with young, have horns that curve in towards their head, the males curve outward away from their head like the one seen off to the right of the image almost out of frame.

1/28/17

I was in the archives today and rediscovered some images I had taken a few years back when I had the opportunity to escort a photographer from the Netherlands, Philip Friskorn, on Konza prairie in some research areas not generally open to the public.  It was a great day, the weather cooperated and the Bison did as well.  Sometimes you can go out and not see one Bison but we saw quite a few and some were up much closer than this.  I chose this image because it shows the landscape of the Flint Hills off fairly well and also shows the results after a Spring burn of the prairie.  This was taken in May and the grass was returning quite well.

Note:  A pet peeve of mine is to call them Buffalo, they are not.  The settlers thought they resembled them when they saw them but they have no connection to a true Buffalo.  When publications still refer to them incorrectly it's just laziness and continues the bad information.  I am glad to see more and more referring to them by their actual name of bison.  Rant over.