Ostrich family. Males always dark, females brown because mother sits on the eggs in the daylight and male sits on them at night.
Water is a big deal here in Montana. Not simply how much water is flowing through the rivers, but how it flows is heavily regulated. Seriously, you’re supposed to fill in an environmental impact statement before you move rocks around in the riverbed. However, a lot of people don’t. Rugged individualism is still alive and well around here. So you end up with stuff like in the picture above. People (generally college students) reconfigured the river bed to make places […]
Around there this is year round foliage. Nothing says “Mountain West” to me faster than a pine-needle strewn path.