Iowa Wildflowers
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Morel Mushroom |
| My wife and I were hiking the very steep hillsides
of Brush Creek Canyon when I spotted this morel mushroom. I wanted
to photograph the fungus, not harvest it. As we climbed to the mushroom,
we startled a hen turkey off her nest of 13 eggs. My wife nearly
slid back down the hill from fear of the turkey flying away so fast, and
the turkey . . . it may still be flying. We felt terrible about scaring
the turkey from her nest, but it was truely accidental.
Northeast Iowa Timetable: mid-May |
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