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Phenology Talkbacks: 1/12/21

Marilyn Lee via KAXE-KBXE Season Watch FB Page
evening grosbeak

Phenology is the rhythmic biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Phenology Talkbacks are an opportunity for us to hear what you are noticing outside.   Each week, our resident phenologist John Latimer gathers the talkback comments and closely assesses the subtle changes happening outside. 

In this student report, kid from Pike Lake Elementary report deer tracks, skiing and hoar frost! 

  Students from North Shore Community School report great gray owls, northern shrike and the Spirit Moon.

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North Shore Community School

  The Newstok kids called in a report from Memphis this week!

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Newstoks

  Tina from Laporte reported high and low temps for the week, fishermen in tshirts and an eruption in evening grosbeaks.

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Tina from Laporte

  And, Marilyn called from Topeka, KS.  She's been conducting a little experiment with her birdfeeders! 

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Marilyn from Topeka

KAXE-KBXE Northern Community Radio is listener funded.  If you appreciate that programming like this exists in the world, consider making a year-end contribution to the station to ensure we can continue this service for years to come!

Check out our Season Watch page on Facebookfor more pics, videos and conversation about what's happening outside!

Have a question or observation to share with John? Are you a teacher who wants to get connected with John's Phenology curriculum? Send him an email!

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.