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December 2008
December 04, 2008
Common plantain, with its thin, cylindrical seed stalk, is also called rattail. Mice and birds eat the seeds / If black ice forms on ponds, look for life below: painted …
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November 2008
November 06, 2008
Watch for the last yellow-legged meadowhawks hunting from sun-warmed rock walls, cement foundations, and gravel drives. This small, red-bodied skimmer is the only northern dragonfly to survive into November / …
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October 2008
October 07, 2008
Sugar maples at peak color / A wet October means good mushroom hunting / The northern casemaker, the largest of our stream-dwelling caddisflies, is among the last to appear. The …
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September 2008
September 01, 2008
Ruffed grouse broods begin to break up / Native Americans roasted the rootstocks of false Solomon’s seal and ate them. They are said to taste like a mild parsnip. Look …
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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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