You might ask yourself if it's spring when you see these on the forest floor:
It's been too long since I knew my wildflowers. I would have guessed that the top ones were SPRING BEAUTIES and the bottom ones are a type of trillium.
The first flycatchers have been back here in Iowa for sometime already, the EASTERN PHOEBE:
What's a SNOW GOOSE still doing in Iowa? From the looks of it, flying around:
Believe it or not, Iowa DOES have a small population of GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKENS down in the southern part of the state (they were reintroduced, btw). Here are two distant males facing off:
Before you get too excited about it being spring here, a reminder of winter was at my feeder today, a PINE SISKIN:
