Back after a five year break was the Airshow at Scott Air Force Base in the metro St. Louis area. Fantastic show, but unfortunately the Blue Angels were canceled because of weather.

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Back after a five year break was the Airshow at Scott Air Force Base in the metro St. Louis area. Fantastic show, but unfortunately the Blue Angels were canceled because of weather.

Did you know there are Elks in Kentucky? They used to roam freely in the western Kentucky area and were hunted out to extinction over a hundred years ago. They have been reintroduced to the Land Between the Lakes area in a special prairie for them and a buffalo heard.

The storms rolled across the Illinois prairie yesterday evening and it was quite a show from the clouds.

Heron Park just north of Danville Illinois is a wonderful place to visit and do some bird watching. My recent visit I saw a number of songbirds and numerous Canadian Geese. Often there is also Egrets and Herons there, but non on my short visit.
There is a floating walkway that you can traverse and go out into the marshlands and give you a closer look at everything.



This Downy Woodpecker was hanging around at the bird feeder at the Homer Lake Interpretive Center on a late Sunday afternoon. It was a gloomy day, so I used Light Room to do some adjustments on this. Shot with Nikon Z9 100-400 f5.6 1/1000 iso 100.