Iowa Public Television show featuring Linda & Robert Scarth

Linda & Robert Scarth, photographers of DEEP NATURE, spent a day with Chris Gourlet, from Iowa Public Television, where he videotaped them as they worked.

They will be featured on his show “Iowa Outdoors: From the lens of one wildlife photographer to the handlebar view from our state's biking enthusiasts, we explore springtime in Iowa.”

See it today!!

Show times:

Saturday, April 27, 8:30 AM on IPTV

Tuesday, April 30, 6:30 PM on IPTV

Saturday, May 11, 8:30 AM on IPTV

http://www.iptv.org/iowaoutdoors/

Midwest Nature Quote of the Week

Although evidence establishing the importance of the Loess Hills as a migrational corridor is still being collected, there is no doubt whatsoever that the Hills stretch out along one of North America’s major flyways for migrating waterfowl. Migrations along the Missouri River, directly adjacent to the Hills, must have been a sight beyond belief before the river’s wetlands and the waterfowl breeding grounds farther north were converted to agricultural land and dramatically reduced in size. But migration along that flyway still is spectacular and can best be appreciated where birds congregate to feed and rest: at Squaw Creek and DeSoto national wildlife refuges, and at Forney Lake and Riverton state wildlife areas in southwestern Iowa. 

Cornelia F. Mutel, Fragile Giants: A Natural History of the Loess Hills

Be sure to see Robert & Linda Scarth's photography show at the Des Moines Botanical Center March 1-April 30. 

Hoverfly on fringed gentian at Becky's Fen

Fly agaric

Buckeye on New England aster

Jack-o'-lanterns

Deep Nature, photographers Robert & Linda Scarth

For more from Robert & Linda Scarth visit their website!

Iowa Public Television show featuring Linda & Robert Scarth

Linda & Robert Scarth, photographers of DEEP NATURE, spent a day with Chris Gourlet, from Iowa Public Television, where he videotaped them as they worked.

They will be featured on his show “Iowa Outdoors: From the lens of one wildlife photographer to the handlebar view from our state's biking enthusiasts, we explore springtime in Iowa.”

See it tonight!!

Show times:

Thursday, April 25, 8:30 AM on IPTV Learns

Thursday, April 25, 2:30 PM on IPTV Learns

Saturday, April 27, 8:30 AM on IPTV

Tuesday, April 30, 6:30 PM on IPTV

Saturday, May 11, 8:30 AM on IPTV

http://www.iptv.org/iowaoutdoors/

Excerpt from The Raptors of Iowa

As these years in the field have gone by, I have counted myself as one of the most fortunate to have been able to work with raptors. To watch a peregrine falcon swoop across the face of a rock bluff along the Mississippi River is to witness true grace and speed connected to the sacred beauty of a rock escarpment that has occupied this space for millions of years.

Listening to a pair of red-shouldered hawks call to each other from deep inside a forest along the Upper Mississippi River is listening to the sacred language of wildness. And to witness the reckless abandon of a goshawk darting full speed toward a pigeon in our autumn banding station is a new take on the work "sudden." Watching a pair of bald eagles building their nest and then watching as these birds add to and use this same nest and raise young eagles every year for the next twelve years makes me feel part of their story. All these and a thousand other episodes are treasured gifts that I received for choosing to study and live with raptors.

Raptors have shown a great strength and a marvelous ability to adapt and survive. At the same time the lessons in the use of DDT and the loss of habitat have shown that raptors can be totally vulnerable and acutely sensitive to negative influences in the environment. I hope future Iowans will always find the time in their busy lives to stop and watch and enjoy the beauty and grace of the spiral of perfection in a hawk when it soars. I also hope future Iowans will have the resolve, the ingenuity, and the consciousness to be totally aware of what is happening to raptor populations in their state. As Gladys Black used to say, "It is a matter of eternal vigilance."


From the essay by Jon W. Stravers in The Raptors of Iowa , paintings by James F. Landenberger

Iowa Public Television show featuring Linda & Robert Scarth

Linda & Robert Scarth, photographers of DEEP NATURE, spent a day with Chris Gourlet, from Iowa Public Television, where he videotaped them as they worked.

They will be featured on his show “Iowa Outdoors: From the lens of one wildlife photographer to the handlebar view from our state's biking enthusiasts, we explore springtime in Iowa.”

See it tonight!!

Show times:

Monday, April 22, 9:30 PM on IPTV

Thursday, April 25, 8:30 AM on IPTV Learns

Thursday, April 25, 2:30 PM on IPTV Learns

Saturday, April 27, 8:30 AM on IPTV

Tuesday, April 30, 6:30 PM on IPTV

Saturday, May 11, 8:30 AM on IPTV

http://www.iptv.org/iowaoutdoors/

Recipe: Minted Peas with Lemon

Minted Peas With Lemon (excerpt from Neighboring on the Air)

1 10-ounce package frozen peas
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/2 teaspoon dried mint
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel

Cook peas according to package directions; drain.
Add butter, mint, and lemon peel; toss to coat peas.
Heat through.
Serves 4.

Neighboring on the Air: Cooking with the KMA Radio Homemakers, by Evelyn Birkby