These are the real thing - two real male prairie chickens engaged in the territorial conflict prior to finding a female to engage in the mating dance on the prairie. The distinctive mating song is, of course, absent.
And flowers. The state flower of South Dakota is the Pasque flower. Photo by PP. Pasque refers to Passover and Easter, the time of year when the flower blooms. It's also known as the prairie crocus, wind flower and Easter Flower. It was used as a medicinal plant by the native Americans.
It rained today in Minnesota. It was a hard rain, and it came down even harder a couple of times while I was playing tennis at Fort Snelling. It was very loud in in the bubble, so loud that the sound of racket hitting ball was completely drowned out. It made the game change some. It is amazing how much one relies on sound to judge the velocity of a struck ball and thus its trajectory. We finished two sets that would have been impossible outside in the Minnesota monsoon.
And because of the rain, I borrowed these photos from the Princess.
2 comments:
The video of the 'booming' that she posted on her Facebook page is on Youtube. Maybe you could provide a link to it. She also has a great shot of a lake, still covered in ice.
There was a ton of rain here, too. It has been a frustrating spring to be a bicyclist. It was not a good weekend.
A video of Prairie Chicken Booming from Youtube is illustrative. As requested by Santini.
TT
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