Mike Havlik
Squeakers, squawkers and honkers are filling the gray autumn sky with undulating, V-shaped ribbons of waterfowl called skeins. This week’s Gift of Bird Watching...
If you drive in the country during late summer, you might notice hundreds of small birds packed tightly together on utility lines, as if...
In the Randy Travis song, “Deeper Than the Holler,” the country crooner uses natural phenomena to describe how grand is his love for his...
This week’s Gift of Bird Watching is a conservation success story: the Osprey.
These eagle-sized, fish-eating birds of prey vanished from Iowa before European settlement....
I was walking the dog this weekend in rural southern Iowa and heard one of my favorite bird calls of all time: the Bobolink.
Their...
We have been posting a "Gift of Bird Watching" column every week recently because the birds now arriving are creating an identification bottleneck!
This week’s...
Even if you can’t name the rose-breasted grosbeak, you most likely have identified one.
The “red bib,” juxtaposed against a white belly and black throat,...
Is there another sight or sound as glorious as the Baltimore Oriole’s arrival? This week’s "Gift of bird watching" is the exclamation point that spring is...
“Killy-killy-killy!" A dove-sized falcon swoops up from the ditch and lands on a power line, pumping his tail three times.
This week’s Gift of Bird...
Imagine being in your yard, enjoying the first warm days of spring, when a swarm of raucous voices pours in from the sky like...
