SPILLWAY BIG SPIRIT-EAST LAKE OKOBOJI

[Robert Thorbrogger]

 yesterday just before  sunset, braved the waning blizzard and walked through fish hatchery park ...  the previously open water - East Lake Okoboji, now frozen over so ducks and geese confined to spillway...when I realized this I turned back so as not to make them take flight, since there is no where for them to go...walking west toward home was treated to brilliant sundogs framing the setting sun...  a nice end to the day

bob thorbrogger

[Carl Kurtz]

I checked my photos from February 26, 2018 and had forgotten how different the conditions were. First there was little if any snow, there was open water in marshes in Central Iowa and large flocks of migrating geese were moving north.  What a difference the weather can make in the spring migration.  There have been reports of migrating red-winged blackbirds in SE Iowa, but there has been no sign of them here in the central part of the state.  Like most of you, I am really excited to see flocks of snow, white-fronted geese and ducks.  It gives me hope for spring.   Here’s a photo from a year ago at Anderson Lake in Hamilton County. 

Carl Kurtz

Marshall County

Central Iowa.