It’s late August and it’s a hot one here today. People may not realize, Iowa get’s a wide range of weather patterns. We can be over 100 degrees in the summer and well below zero in the winter. Such is the variety of the upper Midwest. These really are the proverbial dog days of summer…hot … Read more
Bald Eagles around the Midwest are now either on eggs or actually have some young in the nest right now. Look around and you might just spot an eagle nest…they are popping up in a lot of places and they are usually BIG. You can see them from quite a distance away. I watched an … Read more
Not everyone loves woodpeckers it seems. Log home owners are not often smitten. But say what you will about them, they put old broken down timber to good use. Actually now that I think about it, they have a lot in common with folks who live in log homes. I admire them both for having … Read more
It doesn’t happen every year, but sometimes, at our local lock and dam near Muscatine, you’ll find a particular eagle that dominates the lock chamber. There’s water in there…it’s calm, and it get’s a fish coming through now and then…and this big bird takes advantage of that. Due to it’s size and demeanor I’m pretty … Read more
You have to hand it to the eagle…sometimes they just aren’t picky. From observation, I think some birds prefer fresh fish…they’ll wait patiently for the right opportunity to hunt a live and floppy fish, plucked right from the water. In other cases, some individuals are a lot less finicky. Fish, long expired, but trapped in … Read more
This was a popular perch on the morning I sat nearby in my portable blind. I had watched a few birds perch on this old Iowa river snag a time or two in the past. So on a day when the waters around it finally opened up from the ice, I found the timing to … Read more