Coots are Cool
Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. COOTS ARE COOL Commonly referred to as ‘mud hen or mud duck‘, the American coot is neither a duck nor a hen but is actually a giant member of the rail […]
Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. COOTS ARE COOL Commonly referred to as ‘mud hen or mud duck‘, the American coot is neither a duck nor a hen but is actually a giant member of the rail […]
Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. Warm in the sunshine, but cool in the shade. That’s just one of a thousand things that I like about October — my favorite month of the year. October is the
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Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. If you’re one of those folks who utilize backyard hummingbird feeders, then you already know that this year’s fall migration has been a World Class, Record Book event. On
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Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. It would be hard for anyone to miss this annual spectacle. If you’ve been out and about during recent rainy days, you’ve undoubtedly seen it for yourself — scores of tiger salamanders
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Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. All is not quiet on the Western Front. It is, in fact, getting noisier by the day. Across the vast expanse of the American West; the annual elk rut is in
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Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. The morning duck hunt was off to a slow start. Although several teal had visited my location prior to legal shooting time, no birds had appeared in the twenty minutes since sunrise.
Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. Iowa’s bonus teal season has been running for ten days now and Iowa duck hunters have been enjoying some incredible “bonus fun”. But following several consecutive meals of grilled blue-wing; it was
Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. No one will argue that the 2014 Iowa dove season is easily our best yet. So far, there have been five straight, back to back days of high intensity wing shooting excitement.
Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. The popularity of Iowa’s dove season continues to grow. This year, for example, there were actual “dove camps” on public areas. On the eve of Monday’s September 1st Opener, hunters’ campfires
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Photography courtesy of Lowell Washburn, all rights reserved. The attached photo is my idea of the ‘Perfect Ten’. The scene occurred Friday afternoon near the north border of Wind Cave National Park. While driving the backroads I spotted the horns