No snow, No snow, No Snow, Christmas, No snow, New Years, No Snow, January 3, 2012…..SNOW!!!! This year Ohio hasn’t seen much snow and its already the first week in January!!! Are any of you missing your snow??? I know I am!
Mystery Photo
The birds are migrating snow geese photographed eating in a corn stubble field in southeast Colorado last November. Before humans started planting crops on their migration route, many snow geese died during their spring and fall migrations between the arctic and the Gulf of Mexico. Now, because the geese fatten up on waste grain, more of them survive the stress of migration. Unfortunately, the expanded flocks are now ruining their sensitive arctic nesting grounds for themselves and other wildlife. more…
Congratulations to our summer photo contest winners, and thank you everyone for your fantastic submissions!
Our First Place Winner is Cody Murken, 9, of Starbuck, Minnesota. Judges comments: The subject, captured in Palisades State Park, South Dakota, was unique and the focus was sharp.
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I don’t know about yall but here in Ohio the winter chills are FREEZING, it was -20 here the other day and it is supposed to get way colder….all I have to say is BRRRRR!!!!
by Ken Solormon
Photo by Roger Hill.
If you like hunting pheasants in fall, you need to help them make it through the winter so they can nest in spring. Here’s what pheasants face when the snows fly and the thermometer drops … and how they survive to see another spring. (Also, knowing what a pheasant does on a typical day will help you hunt them):
With the first deep snow or ice storm, people start to worry about pheasants starving. Death due to starvation during inclement weather is extremely rare if pheasants have adequate winter habitat.
A pheasant’s typical winter day goes like this: If available, the pheasant will spend its nights in grassy cover or wetlands (called roosting cover). An hour or so before sunrise, they will leave the grass and head for shrub cover for protection from aerial predators (loafing cover). Here, they will be joined by other pheasants before venturing out to feed. About 30 minutes before sunrise, they will move out to feed in harvested grain fields or, better yet, unharvested food plots (feeding cover). more…
