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Phenology Report: March 20, 2018

Marilyn Lee via KAXE/KBXE Seasonwatch FB page
Swans

We care deeply about the natural world around us here at KAXE-KBXE.  Each week, our resident phenologist John Latimer's Phenology Report provides a comprehensive look at what's  happening in nature here in northern Minnesota.  

In this Phenology Report, John reports on the comments and emails he's received over the past week along with his own notes which include the intense color change in dogwood trees and willows, downy and pileated woodpeckers and returning crows.  Soon we'll be seeing blue herons and robins and a host of other sure signs of spring!

Let us know what you are noticing! We would love to hear from you!   Send us a note via email or leave a voicemail at 218.999.9876. 

If you love this stuff, you'll dig our KAXE-KBXE Season Watch Page on Facebook.  Check it out!

Listen to our morning show every Tuesday morning for the full phenology experience that is the Tuesday Morning Show on KAXE-KBXE Northern Community Radio. 

Phenology is made possible by the members of Northern Community Radio and a grant from the U of MN NE Regional Sustainable Development Partnership.

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.