Northern Community Radio presents Phenology

Talkback is your opportunity to communicate with us! Tuesday’s’ Talkback Segment is always dedicated to the rhythmic biological nature of events as they relate to climate – Phenology. Listeners send in reports of what they’ve noticed outside in the past week. Maybe you've got an observation you'd like to share. Maybe it's just a question you'd like to ask or a comment you'd like to make. We don't care. We just like to hear from you. So get in touch with us. You can send an email directly to our

Phenology is the rhythmic biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Every week our resident phenologist John Latimer takes a close look at the natural world around us. This week John discusses the fact that we are in the hottest part of summer and that corresponds with the coldest part of the winter 6 months from now. In his report he digs into butterflies, blooms, bogs, kingbirds, berries and much more! Listener talkbacks from Steve Wilson, the Newstock kids, Pam, and Chris from

Every Tuesday during the morning show, our resident phenologist John Latimer takes a deep dive into nature...just before 7am, he shares notes and phone messages from listeners during what we call the "Talkback" segment of the Phenology show. Then, later in the morning, around 7:20am, he shares his personal, complete phenological assessment of what's blooming, buzzing, growing, and changing here in the northwoods of Minnesota in his official, weekly Phenology Report. In talkbacks this week, John

John Latimer had the chance for an extended conversation with the ebulliant Megan Benage. She's a regional biologist who specializes in prairies and grasslands. You can check out the Prairie Pod Podcast here. And check out the Recreation Compass from the DNR's website that Megan mentions. S he wrote this in the MN Conservation Volunteer: It's tough for me to pinpoint the exact moment I found my soulmate, the tallgrass prairie. My mentor at Purdue University, where I studied wildlife science,

Every Tuesday during the morning show, our resident phenologist John Latimer takes a deep dive into nature...just before 7am, he shares notes and phone messages from listeners during what we call the "Talkback" segment of the Phenology show. Then, later in the morning, around 7:20am, he shares his personal, complete phenological assessment of what's blooming, buzzing, growing, and changing here in the northwoods of Minnesota in his official, weekly Phenology Report. We are wild about the nature

Tuesdays are special around here! Every Tuesday during the morning show, we bring listeners The Phenology Show. It's a special time when we focus on and celebrate the amazing natural world around us! Listeners send in phone messages and emails with observations and questions while our resident phenologist does a deep dive comparing what he's noticed in the week to the same dates in his journals from years gone by. What are you seeing buzzing and blooming? Send an email or leave a message on our

Tuesdays are special around here! Every Tuesdya during the morning show, we bring listeners The Phenology Show, it's a special time when we focus on and celebrate the amazing natural world around us! Listeners send in phone messages and emails with observations and questions while our resident phenologist does a deep dive comparing what he's noticed in the week to the same dates in his journals from years gone by. This week we heard from the adorable Ruth, Axel and Pearl Newstock as they called

Caterpillars Count! is a citizen science project for measuring the seasonal variation , also known as phenology , and abundance of arthropods like caterpillars, beetles, and spiders found on the foliage of trees and shrubs. We spoke with Dr. Allen Hurlbert about this project. You can find out more here .

Every Tuesday we focus on the natural world around us during the Phenology Show. Listeners send in comments and observations from their daily lives and adventures while our resident phenologist John Latimer provides a full report of animal activity, growth and blooms, comparing aspects of current happenings to events in past years. Take a listen to this week's listener comments and John's full report below. In addition to learning about a wide variety of forest blooms, you'll hear about a heron

Laura Erickson joins Heidi Holtan and John Latimer on the Tuesday Morning Show. They talk about her upcoming Zoom presentations on birding that she will be offering to her listeners and followers through her new Patreon account. For more information go to lauraerickson.com . Laura also shares her knowledge of red-eyed vireos, robins, hummingbirds, sandhill cranes and more!

Black Birders Week is a social media campaign celebrating black naturalists, and black birders in particular. The initiative seeks to interrupt stereotypes about who belongs in nature and science, and was prompted in part by the Central Park birdwatching incident. Co-founder of the event, Chelsea Conner, joins Heidi Holtan and John Latimer on the Tuesday Morning Show. They talk about the challenges faced by black people being outdoors to enjoy nature. Chelsea is a herpetologist, which is the

We missed our weekly reports from students this week, but thankfully we received several reports from other folks in addition to our one student report from Auggie on Northern Sun Farms in Shevlin! So much in bloom, so much activity, so many reasons to get outside and take note of the beauty all around us here in northern Minnesota! Learn how to help a turtle across the road, find out what a snake puked up while Auggie was holding it and discover many, many more observations from him and several

When schools closed in MN due to the COVID-19 pandemic and distance learning began, John Latimer and I weren't sure we'd be getting student phenology reports anymore. We did. Rob Marohn teaches in the "outer reaches" of the Proctor School District at Pike Lake Elementary. A group of his class thrived and dug in deeper on Phenology during home learning. We talked with him this week to thank him for his contributions and on making it through a complicated school year.

Talkback is one way we engage with listeners. Phenology talkbacks become a conversation that paints a picture of what's happening out in nature at a given moment in the phenological cycle. Each week, we receive reports, comments, and questions from listeners and classrooms across Minnesota. Since school went online in March, we noticed the kids and classrooms engaging in phenology even more than before. We are so happy to provide an avenue for kids to get jazzed about nature! We're going to miss

Covid times have been a little crazy in many ways… Enjoy two weeks of back to back phenology reports below. Relive the dawn of summer thru the eyes of our student phenologists and our keen listeners who make it a point to document what they are noticing outside! What are you noticing? Send us an email that includes either a voice recorded memo from your phone or a written note. You can always call 218-999-9876 and leave a voicemail on our talkback line as well…as the kids say, “Be Observant!