Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.For a representative form of government –- of the people, by the people, and for the people – to survive for two and half centuries is something of a miracle.  But that is

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.This year’s spring turkey seasons ended on May 17.  Running for more than a month, Iowa’s spring seasons offer hunters plenty of options for bagging their gobbler while, at the same time, provides

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.I spend more time messing around with wood ducks than I do with any other waterfowl.  The cycle begins in late winter — time to spruce up the nesting boxes where hens will

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Iowa pheasant hunters are walking in tall clover.  Following a series of favorable nesting seasons, Iowa’s pheasant population and Iowa’s pheasant harvest has been slowly inching up since 2015.  Last year’s pheasant season

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.For Iowa Birders; It Is a Time Like No Other This year’s spring songbird migration has been one of the most spectacular in recent years.  Orioles, grosbeaks, tanagers, buntings, wood warblers, you name

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.For Iowa’s resident flock of giant Canada geese, the 2026 spring nesting season is nearly complete.  Although a few late nests are still going, most goslings were out of the egg by May

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.The ring-necked pheasant is Iowa’s most popular upland gamebird.  Everyone loves seeing wild pheasants, and most folks are familiar with the rooster’s spring crowing.  For those who aren’t, there will never be a

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.“A wonderful bird is the pelican.  His bill can hold more than his belican”                                                                                                   — Poet, Dixon Merritt 1910 With it’s massive size and nine-foot wingspan, the American white pelican is one

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.The change of seasons is at hand.  And right on schedule, the first species of songbirds are beginning to arrive in Iowa.  During the next several weeks, bird numbers will continue to swell

Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved.Elvis has left the building.  For all practical purposes, this year’s spring snow goose season is over.  Not because of any calendar date, but rather because one of the planet’s most highly migratory