Winter can be a difficult time for wildlife survival. Yet Mother Nature has provided every species that remains in cold country with adaptations to make it through a long cold winter. Adaptations include accumulated fat layers from which nutrients can be pulled as needed. By springtime, fat ...

To see what an eagle sees sometimes requires a method of becoming airborne just like the big predatory bird. Us humans have to resort to aircraft to do so. Flying offers the opportunity to view the land below from an entirely new perspective. Things we are familiar with from ground level ...

House finches are a sparrow sized bird, with typical sparrow-like coloration on its back and sides. However, the head and chest of male House finches are quite distinct. This finch species was originally a bird associated with western United States and Mexico. In 1940, a small number ...

The First Christmas By JOHN GARWOOD It was a clear, cold and starlight night. A blanket of the whitest snow bedded down the valley of the Iowa ... there were no lights from farms or villages ... because there were no farms of villages ... it was ‘most two thousand years ago! Like the ...

Bridges, whether on roadways, or nature trails, assist in the way people get from point A to point B. We tend to take them for granted until one breaks, is destroyed, or causes inconvenience when it takes a long time to construct a replacement. Bridges across the Iowa River are hugely important ...

As a photographer who is always on the lookout for some new natural moment to reveal itself, many occasions turn out to be fleetingly quick. Luck is a good word for today’s image of a crescent moon. That is the first thing that caught my eye as the sun had just set a few moments previous. ...