Need a snack as you’re out hunting, skiing, or birdwatching this winter? The Canada mayflower provides tasty berries that last throughout winter – if you can confidently recognize them. For those of us who are less skilled at plant ID, it’s safer to identify a patch in spring or summer, mark it, then come back for snacks later on.
Enjoy staff phenologist John Latimer’s notes on the Canada mayflower – and many other subjects – in this week’s phenology report.
Topics
- Introduction (0:00-0:25)
- Snow, ice and windchill (0:25-6:33)
- Tamaracks, European larches differ in phenology (6:33-11:55)
- Turkeys and waterfowl (11:55-13:15)
- Canada mayflower berries (13:15-14:35)
- Wood frog call (14:35-15:14)
- Kingfishers stay until ice-in (15:14-16:01)
- Burgundy berry-bearing plants (16:01-17:12)
- Bald Eagles rebuild their nest (17:12-18:35)
- Conclusion (18:35-19:45)
What have you seen out there? Let us know: email us at comments@kaxe.org or text us at 218-326-1234.
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Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).
