Showing posts with label nature study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature study. Show all posts
Thursday, October 1, 2015

The Sukkot Super-moon eclipse of 2015

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The first night of Sukkot (Feast of Booths) always falls on the full moon of the Hebrew month of Tishri.  This year it was not only a full...
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Friday, July 3, 2015

In Memory of "Big Bird," my pet rooster

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I am sad to report that Big Bird, the ten-pound yellowish-white rooster who appeared with me on posters and the cover of my latest boo...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Got allergies? Don't blame the goldenrod!

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It's mid-September and the goldenrod is now in full bloom -- right about the same time that the pollen count hits the roof.  Over and ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

A beautiful pink and white spider!

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"Even things you see as superfluous in this world -- like flies, fleas, and mosquitoes -- are part of the greater scheme of the creatio...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Meteors and Memories

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Last night I finally got to watch the Perseid meteor showers.  I say "finally" because the previous nights this year were cloudy...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Year of the Cicada -- again!

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This year the 17-year cicadas are emerging in the eastern United States.  We don't get to see any here in  in Minnesota, unless a few st...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Audubon Center of the North Woods sponsors new Cub Scout Pack

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In March 2013, the Audubon Center of the North Woods  became the charter sponsoring organization for a new Cub Scout Pack, #185.   The group...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Are eagles nesting too early this year?

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This is a still shot from the  Minnesota DNR EagleCam , which is focused on a nest in Minneapolis.  As you can see, there is already an e...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Stormy skies make the best sunrises

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All of the photos on this page were take from the same hill on my land in Pine County, Minnesota, looking east.  And all of them were taken ...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

Living with Predators on the Circle of Life

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Last Saturday there was a big ruckus down at the chicken coop.  When I went to investigate, I soon saw why:  A Red-Tailed Hawk had killed on...
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Why was this hornet's nest so close to the ground?

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Now that the leaves are all down, you can sometimes spot interesting things that were hidden during the summer.  Like this Bald-Faced Horn...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Firing Big Bird would be just the beginning for Romney

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A week after the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney is still baffled as to why the Obama campaign is focusing on his "Big Bird...
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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Celebrating Thoreau's 150th Yahrzeit

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 Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Today is the 150th anniversary of the death of American writer and philosopher, Henry David Thor...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Wild Turkeys -- hard freeze tonight -- picking green tomatoes

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This has to be the most cruelty-free wild turkey feather ever -- it was dropped on our dirt road by a passing flock of turkeys about a week ...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Night of the Polyphemus Moths

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When I was growing up in the 1950s, we used to find lots of the Giant Silk Moths (Saturniidae), such as Cecropia, Luna, Polyphemus, Ailanthu...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

To collect or not to collect -- is that really the question?

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A while back, I had a conversation with a vegan who thought it was wrong for children to catch fireflies in jars.  Her reasoning was, that t...
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Monday, July 4, 2011

Where are the Monarch butterflies this year?

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Over the years, I have purposely allowed Common Milkweed to naturalize on my land, because it is the food plant of the Monarch butterfly l...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Unplugging for God and nature

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The past two days were the Jewish festival of Shavuot, which is both the Feast of First Fruits and the commemoration of the giving of the...
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Pileated Woodpecker action on dead trees -- wow!

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Pileated Woodpecker (Photo by Noel Lee, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)  Now that the snow has melted, I can finally get back into ou...
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