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Phenology
They rhythmic biological events as they relate to climate.

Phenology Report: January 30, 2018

Katie Carter
Lake Bemidji Sunrise

 

We care deeply about the natural world around us here at KAXE-KBXE.  Each week, our resident phenologist John Latimer's Phenology Report provides a comprehensive look at what's  happening in nature here in northern Minnesota.  

This week, among other things, John reports lots of scent posts, a gray squirrel, a cotton tail rabbit, and a discussion of the northern shrike who silences bird songs the moment it shows up in the yard.  What are you noticing?  Send us a note via email or leave a voicemail at 218.999.9876.  We'd love to hear about it.   

If you love this stuff, you'll dig our KAXE-KBXE Season Watch Page on Facebook.  Check it out!

Listen to our morning show every Tuesday morning for the full phenology experience that is the Tuesday Morning Show on KAXE-KBXE Northern Community Radio. 

Phenology is made possible by the members of Northern Community Radio and a grant from the U of MN NE Regional Sustainable Development Partnership.  

As a mail carrier in rural Grand Rapids, Minn., for 35 years, John Latimer put his own stamp on a career that delivered more than letters. Indeed, while driving the hundred-mile round-trip daily route, he passed the time by observing and recording seasonal changes in nature, learning everything he could about the area’s weather, plants and animals, and becoming the go-to guy who could answer customers’ questions about what they were seeing in the environment.
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