Lowell Washburn

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.If there was a single month of the year that I could grab, put in a bottle, and keep forever – that month would be October.  For those who love the out-of-doors, the […]

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.If you’ve not yet seen or heard a big old bullfrog booming from the edge of your favorite fishing hole or duck pond, hold on.  The time is coming when you will.  Whether

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Spring Surveys Remained Largely Unchanged             When the days grow cooler and autumn winds shift to the north, Iowa duck hunters can expect to encounter good numbers of waterfowl during the 2025 hunting seasons. 

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.This year’s multi-segmented, multi-zoned Iowa duck season kicks off with a statewide teal-only hunt beginning September 6.  Although Iowa teal seasons have traditionally allowed for 16 consecutive days of teal hunting, the season

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.After a year of enduring things like weather, migration, and the rearing of youngsters, a bird’s feathers began to show their age.  The annual replacement of those worn feathers is called the molt. 

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.With its four-foot height, ear-piercing call, and six-foot wingspan; I think you’d be hard pressed to find a bird with more charisma than the crimson-capped sandhill crane.  After a century of absence, sandhill

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Biologists with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources have completed statewide July goose banding operations.  This year, a total of nearly 4,000 Canada geese were successfully captured and banded, according to Orrin Jones,

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.According to Iowa’s state climatologist, last winter was the fourth least snowy in 138 years of record keeping – a real boon for winter pheasant survival.  The abnormally dry winter was followed by

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.            A Yellow-headed Blackbird, Of Course! With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species.  An inhabitant of Iowa marshlands, the

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Spring is in the air — literally.  Leaving their winter homes, millions of neotropical songbirds are now winging their way to northern nesting grounds.  For many species, the flight between South American wintering