A weekly feature on the timing of outdoor occurrences
In an effort to bring more seasonal sanity to our lives, this is the last episode of The Nature of Phenology—but before we go, let’s revisit the joys and importance of phenology that we hopefully highlighted these past 7 ½ years.
Also known as burbot, cusk are an oddity among our freshwater fish. Following canyon and valley-like topography in the bed of the lakes, cusk will migrate up out of the deep water into shallow sand and gravelly shoals to spawn in late February and early March.
An understanding of deer digestion and seasonal patterns highlights the eccentricities and harm that can come from feeding deer.
Most plants have gone to seed at this point in the fall, and burdock is one easy-to-recognize plant with a very creative seed-dispersal strategy.
Watch out for this beast of the north woods that haunts forgotten paths and leaves puzzling tracks.
The peak of the Orionid meteor shower this year is 10/21/23. What causes them and why do these happen this time every year?
There are so many tools we can use to predict the weather or the severity of winter…which ones are the most accurate?
Picture a sparse cluster of tiny, dark turquoise goblets, no more than a centimeter tall and just half to one centimeter wide and you have an image of these mushrooms.
These raptors have been spending the summer breeding season across most of northern North America, from Alaska to Nova Scotia. Right now, they’re migrating to their winter haunts as far south as northern South America.
Wildlife don’t appear to enjoy these beautiful berries much, which is why they can still be spotted one to two months after they initially formed.
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