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Phenology
They rhythmic biological events as they relate to climate.

Phenology Report: September 1, 2020

John Guida via KAXE-KBXE Season Watch Facebook Page
Banded Garden Spider

Phenology is the rhythmic biological nature of events as they relate to climate.  Each week, listeners send along phenological observations and questions to Northern Community Radio resident phenologist John Latimer closely assesses the subtle changes happening outside and gives a full, official phenology report.

This week John’s report is full of signs of changing seasons, bird migrations, flocks of flickers,, sunflowers blooming, leaves dropping, and much more!

As always, we really would love to know what you are seeing at your place or out on your adventures outdoors.  Email your questions and observationsor leave a message on our talkback line at 218-999-9876. 

School is starting up… We love hearing from schoolkids who are out exploring the natural world around them!  John has created a Phenology Curriculum for teachers.  If you are a teacher interested in incorporating phenology into your classroom, email John!   

If you love phenology, you’ll appreciate our KAXE-KBXE Season Watch Facebook page, too.  Check it out!

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.