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Phenology Talkbacks & Student Reports: 10/20/20

Cami Inforzato via KAXE-KBXE Season Watch FB Page
Jay Cooke State Park

Phenology Talkbacks are an opportunity for our community to connect with the station thru nature… Each week listeners and students report observations and present questions to our resident phenologist John Latimer. 

What are you noticing?Send your observations via email or voicemail at 218-999-9876.  You could even record a voice memo on your phone and send your thought that way!

If you are a teacher interested in getting your class on the phenology trail, John has created a whole phenology curriculum!  Send him an email for more information!

This week we heard about last monarch sightings, tents collapsing,  a massive ginko leaf drop and much more! 

Kids in Kelliher reported average temperatures, snowfall, fox, and wondered about butterflies in winter. 

Students at Prairie Creek School in Northfield reported so much snow their classroom tent collapsed!

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Prairie Creek classroom Report

Listeners Jeff and Jake reached out with reports of probably the last monarch and yellow rumped warbler they will see for the year.

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Listener talkbacks

Tornado Bob inspires a discussion of  migratory birds

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Tornado Bob and Birds

If you love Phenology, check out our KAXE-KBXE Season Watch page on Facebook

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.