Ranch Saturday: Pasture Rainbow
by terranovabay
A rainbow arcs over pastureland at Treasure Hammock Ranch. From the Florida Cattle Ranch project
Categories: Weather • Tags: Florida Cattle Ranch, rainbow, Treasure Hammock Ranch
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Ranch Saturday: Future Fenceline
by terranovabay
A pile of fence posts wait near the barn until they are needed. The fence line of the future. From the Florida Cattle Ranch Project
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Fence Posts, Florida Cattle Ranch, Treasure Hammock Ranch
Ranch Saturday: Barn With Barbed Wire
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Barn With Barbed Wire | Treasure Hammock Ranch From the Florida Cattle Ranch Project
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Barbed Wire, barn, Florida Cattle Ranch, Treasure Hammock Ranch
Ranch Saturday: A rancher’s artistic eye
by terranovabay
Cattle rancher and artist Sean Sexton scrutinizes the Treasure Hammock Ranch landscape at sunset for a painting he is working on. —from the Florida Cattle Ranch project
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: Florida Cattle Ranch, Sean Sexton, Treasure Hammock Ranch
Cattle Ranching In Florida
by terranovabay
An old but deserving project got dusted off a bit when the University of Florida asked if they could use images from my photo series on Florida cattle ranching and the wildlife found on ranches in a short video about Treasure Hammock Ranch narrated by Sean Sexton. Watch the short video above, it is very good. And then visit the old Florida Cattle Ranch website where I photo documented the wildlife and the work on Treasure Hammock Ranch at http://www.floridacattleranch.org
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: cattle, Florida Cattle Ranch, ranch, Treasure Hammock Ranch, UF, University of Florida
Bovine Cranium
by terranovabay
A cow skull rots in the woods on a ranch in Indian River County, Florida.
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: bovine, cattle, cow, cranium, Florida, Indian River County, skull, Treasure Hammock Ranch, Vero Beach
Asymmetrical Ears
by terranovabay
At last Saturday’s FMEL-ORCA conservation stewardship class, I talked about birds of prey including the Barred Owl (Strix varia) that I photographed on a local ranch . . . . . . . . and the Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) photographed at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge in the process of stealing an Osprey nest for its own use. A question was asked about the hearing ability of Owls, which led me to discover that an Owl’s skull has […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: asymmetrical, Barred Owl, Bubo virginianus, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, FMEL, Great Horned Owl, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR, Strix varia, Treasure Hammock Ranch
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by terranovabay
With apologies, lots of apologies actually, to Tennessee Williams. A cat atop the old barn at Treasure Hammock Ranch is one of several that live in the barn. Far from being strays, the cats are well fed members of the ranch family who can climb all over the barn, including onto and off the roof, with the greatest of ease.
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: barn, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Indian River County, ranch, Tennessee Williams, Treasure Hammock Ranch
Mosquito Sunset
by terranovabay
My goal today was to go out to Treasure Hammock Ranch to take photos of the Moon in the night sky, but the infinite horde of voracious, blood-thirsty mosquitoes was so bad that I had to retreat quickly soon after taking these photos of the sunset.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Indian River County, mosquito, sunset, Treasure Hammock Ranch
A Cow Nose
by terranovabay
A story on National Public Radio the other day called “The Cows Did What?” reminded me of this incident that occurred awhile back. The NPR story concerned itself with the often ignored, at least by most humans, fact that cows and other life on this planet can be just as curious and interested in things as people can be. I guess this aspect of animal intelligence/behavior is best overlooked when the overall value of animal life is reduced to dollars […]
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: cattle, cow, Indian River County, Jeep, Jeep Wrangler, National Public Radio, NPR, pasture, Treasure Hammock Ranch, Vero Beach, Wrangler
