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Phenology
They rhythmic biological events as they relate to climate.

Phenology Report: March 3, 2020

Dean Squires via KAXE-KBXE Season Watch FB Page

Taking time to contemplate what is happening in nature is one of the many aspects of Northern Community Radio that sets us apart from any other radio station.  Each day we bring you a phenology note when our resident phenologist John Latimer shares a note from his more than 35 years of personal journals documenting climate and nature data collection.  Each Tuesday he digs even deeper with the weekly Phenology Report. 

This week, John raves about the bright red osier dogwoods and the beautiful willows,  shares some observations watching a raven and an eagle and discusses how some birds return based on temperature and some on light.  

We want to know what you are noticing outside!  Send John an email or call 218-999-9876 and leave a message.  Become part of the program!

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.