It was another hot, humid weekend in central Iowa. Saturday got off to a good start with the first good vagrant bird of the fall season. On Thursday, longtime Iowa birders Eugene and Eloise Armstrong had a Selasphorus hummingbird appear at their Madison County farmstead. Selasphorus is a western genus that contains several similar species. [...]
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A Vagrant Bird and Tiger Beetles
Posted in Birds, Tiger Beetles, tagged Birds, hummingbird, millipede, Tiger Beetles on August 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A New Species for Iowa
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, Dragonflies, Other insects, tagged butterflies, cicadas, dragonflies, Funereal Duskywing, Loess Hills, robber flies, skippers on August 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Last Sunday, Cory Gregory and I made a trip up to Plymouth County in the far northwest corner of Iowa. Plymouth County borders South Dakota and is separated from it by the Big Sioux River. It contains some of the most extensive prairie tracts left in Iowa, including the Nature Conservancy’s Broken Kettle Grasslands, home [...]
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