Lowell Washburn

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.One of the things I enjoy most about Iowa’s early duck seasons – in addition to the ducks, of course – are the sights and sounds provided by the vast diversity of life […]

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Iowa’s cattail marshlands represent one of our greatest natural treasures.  Marshlands aid in flood control, store surface water, and recharge vital underground aquifers.  But wetlands are most famous for their wildlife.  Marshes provide

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Tempus fugit.  I think what those words mean is — Time Flies When You’re Huntin’ Ducks.  I’m sitting in a duck blind right now, enjoying some leftover grilled teal as I watch as

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Our nights are becoming cooler; the days growing shorter.  Right on schedule, monarch butterflies are winging their way across the Iowa skies.  Enroute to ancestral wintering grounds, the migration provides an annual explosion

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.This year’s multi-segmented duck hunting seasons kick off with a special, 16-day teal-only hunt beginning September 1.  Providing outdoor enthusiasts with more than two weeks of bonus, back-to-back, sunrise to sunset recreational opportunities,

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Spend much time exploring Iowa’s summer marshlands, and you’re likely to encounter a somewhat colorful reptile known as the red-sided garter snake.  The species is named for the obvious red dash marks that

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.For those who enjoy outdoor foraging, July is the month that keeps on giving.  As we roll into midsummer, North Iowans are presented with an abundance of wild, healthy, and highly nutritional foods

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.The wood duck is one of the Mississippi Flyway’s – and Iowa’s — most recreationally important waterfowl.  This fact is especially true for me.  During the course of a year, I spend more

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Letting go can be hard to do – especially when it’s something you love.     McGregor,IA — It was a brilliant spring day, and my wife Carol and I were admiring the view

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.I’m not one of those people who is big on naming wildlife.  But in the case of Bobtail, it was hard to resist. Bobtail is a white-tailed doe that, at some point in