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Greater Prairie Chickens - these two males were mixing it up just after sunrise in a display for the female in the foreground
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Greater Prairie Chicken
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Greater Prairie Chicken hen with male
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Greater Sage Grouse
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White-tailed Ptarmigan
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Space Invader? Or just a Greater Sage Grouse?
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Greater Sage Grouse mating display
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Greater Sage Grouse mating display
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Great Horned Owl
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Sharp-tailed Grouse on the lek
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Horned Lark
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American Avocets
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Snowshoe Hare
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Sand Hills of Nebraska - Prairie Chicken country
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Gray-crowned Rosy Finches
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Greater Sage Grouse looking dapper
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Lesser Prairie Chicken
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Lesser Prairie Chicken - taken from a blind. They got so close to us I had to start taking headshots with my 500mm lens.
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Sandhill Crane - We watched this bird do a courting ritual of dancing about, and grabbing tufts of grass and throwing them into the air. Quite amusing.
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Bighorn Sheep
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Ring-necked pheasant
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American Avocet
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Loveland Pass, Colorado
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Searching for Ptarmigan on the Continental Divide in a snowstorm
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Brown-capped Rosy Finch
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Ring-necked pheasant
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Sand hill cranes
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White-tailed Ptarmigan
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American Avocet
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Abert's (tassel-eared) squirrel