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2021 Photo Contest - Grand Prize Winner

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Grand Prize Winner - Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl fighting over a prey. Photo by Dan Kirk.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Landscape

1st Place – Autumn sunset at Vilander Bluff. Photo by David Seidensticker.
2nd Place – Platte River Valley with Sandhill Cranes. Photo by David Rabenau.
3rd Place – Monument Rocks and rising clouds. Photo by Casey Galvin.
Honorable Mention – Turner’s Spring in June. Photo by David Seidensticker.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Bonus Category: Nature as Abstract Art

1st Place – Frozen patterns at Don Robinson State Park. Photo by Bill Duncan.
2nd Place – A cedar tree responds to an injury by continuing to grow around the original trunk. Photo by David Seidensticker.
3rd Place – Blades in red. Photo by Casey Galvin.
Honorable Mention – Star-trails and lighting bugs. Photo by Bill Duncan.
Honorable Mention – Star-trails and lighting bugs. Photo by Bill Duncan.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Invertebrates

1st Place – A swamp metalmark on a bed of milkweed. Photo by Bill Duncan.
2nd Place – A definite tussock moth caterpillar glows under ultraviolet illumination. Photo by David Seidensticker.
3rd Place – A perched blue dasher dragonfly. Photo by David Seidensticker.
Honorable Mention – An Aphaenogaster rudis ant caught in the act of myrmecochory, moving the diaspore of a bloodroot back to its nest. Photo by Bill Duncan.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Vertebrates

1st Place – A Snowy Owl stretches in warm afternoon light. Photo by Bill Duncan.
2nd Place – A Great Egret approaches tree to perch. Photo by David Seidensticker.
3rd Place – Western Mudsnake in defensive posture. Photo by Casey Galvin.
Honorable Mention – Northern harrier stealing prey from short eared owl. Photo by Dan Kirk.

2021 Photo Contest Winners - Category: Plants & Fungi

1st Place – The maypop, Passiflora incarnata. Photo by Bill Duncan.
2nd Place – A rare double-flowered spring beauty bloom. Photo by Bill Duncan.
3rd Place – Indian paintbrush at sunset. Photo by Bill Hall.
Honorable Mention – Hare’s foot inkcap. Photo by Lisa Saffell.
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  • About WGNSS
  • WGNSS Event Calendar
  • Contact - WGNSS Board
  • Events
  • Historian's Corner
  • Birding
  • Book Club
  • Botany
  • Conservation
  • Entomology
  • Nature Photography
  • Membership Information
  • Scholarships and Education
    • Bo Koster Grant
    • Menke Scholarship
    • Mickey Scudder Scholarship
  • WGNSS Rules of the Photo Contest
  • 2021 WGNSS Photo Contest Winners
  • 2019 WGNSS Photo Contest Winners
  • 2017 WGNSS Photo Contest Winners
  • 2015 WGNSS Photo Contest Winners
  • 2013 WGNSS Photo Contest Winners
  • Birds of the St. Louis Area
    • Where to find Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  • 'Nature Notes' Archive
    • 2010 - 2019 >
      • 2012, Vol. 84, No. 1-10
      • 2011, Vol. 83, No. 1-10
      • 2010, Vol. 82, No. 1-10
    • 2000 - 2009 >
      • 2009, Vol. 81, No. 1-9
      • 2008, Vol. 80, No. 1-8
      • 2007, Vol. 79, No. 1-10
      • 2006, Vol. 78, No. 1-9
      • 2005, Vol. 77, No. 1-10
      • 2004, Vol. 76 No. 1-10
      • 2003, Vol. 75, No. 1-9
      • 2002, Vol. 74, No. 1-10
      • 2001, Vol. 73, No. 1-10
      • 2000, Vol. 72, No. 1-10
    • 1990 - 1999 >
      • 1999, Vol. 71, No. 1-10
      • 1998, Vol. 70, No. 1-10
      • 1997, Vol. 70, No. 1-10
    • 1980 - 1989
    • 1970 - 1979
    • 1950 - 1959
    • 1960 - 1969
    • 1940 - 1949
    • 1930 - 1939 >
      • 1930, Vol. 1, No. 3-6; Vol. 2, 1-8
      • 1931 Vol. 2, No. 9-12; Vol. 3, 1-4
    • 1920 - 1929 >
      • 1929, Vol. 1, No. 1 -2
  • WGNSS Associated Blogs
  • Favorite links