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Buffalo National River and NW Arkansas
It had to happen, in fact it was overdue. Skunked. Nothing. Zip. There are no elk left in Boxley Valley, probably swept off by alien beings never to return.
That is the feeling you get when there are none. My guess is that they anticipate the heat and just migrate to cooler places. I did see a couple, but at some distance down by the Boxley Baptist Church, but the other fields were empty.
The trumpeters were evident on the mill pond for a fallback target, but I was primed for elk. I went down to the Ponca low water bridge looking for a better white-winged crow, but there were none. I did get an interesting change with a great blue heron, but it was not that special.
The light was especially lousy today as well. Super thick fog.
Tomorrow is likely a day off unless plans change suddenly. I am off to Mountain Home to distribute posters for our upcoming Ozark Mountain Artists Studio Tour, September 19-21. That would be a great event to combine with a trip to see the elk. By then we should be into the rut, and have the earliest fall color. I am beginning to see some early red due to the cold weeks a while back.
Visitors this weekend should look for elk from the first field south of the observation pullout to the highway 21 intersection, possibly to the Boxley Baptist. I will be out again Friday morning looking around. This is all about weather now, so photographers be prepared for fallback subjects if the elk fail to show.
That is the feeling you get when there are none. My guess is that they anticipate the heat and just migrate to cooler places. I did see a couple, but at some distance down by the Boxley Baptist Church, but the other fields were empty.
The trumpeters were evident on the mill pond for a fallback target, but I was primed for elk. I went down to the Ponca low water bridge looking for a better white-winged crow, but there were none. I did get an interesting change with a great blue heron, but it was not that special.
The light was especially lousy today as well. Super thick fog.
Tomorrow is likely a day off unless plans change suddenly. I am off to Mountain Home to distribute posters for our upcoming Ozark Mountain Artists Studio Tour, September 19-21. That would be a great event to combine with a trip to see the elk. By then we should be into the rut, and have the earliest fall color. I am beginning to see some early red due to the cold weeks a while back.
Visitors this weekend should look for elk from the first field south of the observation pullout to the highway 21 intersection, possibly to the Boxley Baptist. I will be out again Friday morning looking around. This is all about weather now, so photographers be prepared for fallback subjects if the elk fail to show.
Shameless Self-Promotion Department
My framed wildlife prints are on display and for sale at a number of locations:
Jasper
Boardwalk Cafe/Arkansas House
Cliff House Inn
Point of View Restaurant
Jasper Chamber Gift Shop
Ponca
Lost Valley Canoe Store
Villines Store (Boxley Valley)
Low Gap
Low Gap Store
Compton
Compton One Stop
Harrison
Uncommon Grounds Coffee Shop
My framed wildlife prints are on display and for sale at a number of locations:
Jasper
Boardwalk Cafe/Arkansas House
Cliff House Inn
Point of View Restaurant
Jasper Chamber Gift Shop
Ponca
Lost Valley Canoe Store
Villines Store (Boxley Valley)
Low Gap
Low Gap Store
Compton
Compton One Stop
Harrison
Uncommon Grounds Coffee Shop
Boxley Valley Update -- 08/27/08 AM
Man, is that all you got buddy? Some kind of big time wildlife photographer you are Michael Dougherty