Phenology Report

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate.  Every Tuesday morning, our resident Phenologist John Latimer gathers his phenological data and reports his findings in the weekly Phenology Report.  In this week's report, John discusses a variety of topics including some of the animal activity we'll be seeing now that we have reached mid-January...As always, we love to hear what our listeners are noticing out in nature.  Give us a call at 218.999.9876 and let us know what is happening around your place.  You can also send an 

Every week we hear from regular listeners and Minnesota school kids as they call or email us with their nature observations. This week we received an  email from Dave wondering about the freezing up the Mississippi River near his house.  We also received eight student reports! 

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate.  Every Tuesday morning, our resident Phenologist John Latimer gathers his phenological data and reports his findings in the weekly Phenology Report.  This week John shares insight on what's behind the "phoebe" call of the chickadee as well as why we'll be hearing all kinds of different woodpecker calls very soon.  

Every week we hear from regular listeners and Minnesota school kids as they call or email us with their nature observations. We heard from several people who emailed messages to John this week and from four classrooms that put together some phenomenal phenology reports! Included this week are some beautiful observations  including a deer on someone's front porch, a bull moose, and a sunsent that caused the sky to have an orange hue with a tint of green and a cloud formation that made part of the sky look like a lake with islands.  

Every week we hear from regular listeners and Minnesota school kids as they call or email us with their nature observations. It was a holiday week, but the kids still represented!  Way to go, kiddos!