Tallgrass Prairie Preserve

We traveled through The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve on are way to Pawhuska on Thursday.

These are the photo's that I took on that Day.

Gate going into the Preserve

notice danger Bison!

We were so lucky the bison had wandered up by the road!

Mom and young calf

Bison on the Prairie so cool!!

Then on Saturday we returned to the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve we drove through the amazing bison on the prairie, it is so wonderful to see them grazing out among the hills.

This sandstone sits just beneath the surface of this vast prairie grass.

The top soil is so rich and fertile, making the prairie a beautiful grassy heaven.

Cute young calf

Big and feisty bull

Snow on the Mountain Flower

Bunk House at the Visitor Centers

Change of Season's

Tallgrass Prairie Preserve Visitor Center

Elder and Sister Gibson

Inside the visitor center

This little shell belonged to a musk turtle.

Butterflies in this area

I would like to find this little bug

Eastern Hercules Beetle

way out in the distance roaming American Bison

Red Tail Hawk

Fossil preserved for all time.

Buffalo Thistle 

Ironweed

Scottish Thistle

came across these two cool rock's full of fossil's

Beautiful shell fossil

And then these Sandstone rock's carved from rain, wind, and time.

The oil grasshopper

Night Hawk

I think this is a young one.

So cool.