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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: August 2008
June 01, 2008
Raspberry season coming to an end; blackberries will ripen soon / Turtlehead blooming / Earliest Jefferson salamander larvae lose their gills and leave their breeding ponds / Second batch of …
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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: July 2008
June 01, 2008
Beavers will abandon their lodges and move on when they have depleted an area of their preferred food species, including willows, aspens, and cottonwood / Honeybee lore: a swarm in …
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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: June 2008
June 01, 2008
Common yellowthroats are good news for slow drivers: they sing loudly and seem to like roadsides / Sapsuckers are excavating new nest cavities. Aspen trees infected by the false tinder …
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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: May 2008
March 01, 2008
May Day is midway between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice / Wild ginger is flowering. Small pollinating gnats and flies warm themselves within the ground-hugging flower / Forty …
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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: April 2008
March 01, 2008
Elm flowers are out, well before the leaves / Downy and hairy woodpeckers are excavating nest holes. It takes downies about 16 days to complete the job; 20 days for …
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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: March 2008
March 01, 2008
Pine grosbeaks and cedar waxwings may come to town to feast on crabapples / White-breasted nuthatches sometimes use birdhouses, starting soon. The entrance hole should be 1¼ inches in diameter …
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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: February 2008
February 01, 2008
Feb 2: Groundhog Day / The familiar bird’s-nest-shaped seed heads of Queen Anne’s lace contain emergency food for birds / Blue jays may be cleaning out your feeder, but they …
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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: January 2008
January 01, 2008
Jan. 4: peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower, on an almost moonless night / Look for golden crowned kinglets hanging from hemlock cones and hovering at the tips of twigs …
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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: December 2007
December 01, 2007
At over 100 pounds, this year’s male bear cubs have well outgrown the females / The brown, fertile fronds of sensitive fern will release spores in spring. Gray fronds are …
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A Look at the Season’s Main Events: November 2007
November 01, 2007
Unseasonably warm, moist weather will stimulate peepers to sing from woods and fields, sometimes far from ponds, before they go belowground for the winter / A cattail flowerhead has tiny …
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