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Category: Notes from the North Country
A new multi-part special, Wild Mississippi will be first aired on February 12 at 6 Central on National Geographic Wild. I can't watch this when it is on because I don't get the channel on my TV, but I copped a review copy and...
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Category: Aves (birds)
This post at 10,000 Birds, an item I accidentally bumped into on the Internet while looking for something else, and an unusual sighting moments ago, converge. And, its a nice distracting convergence which I need right now because as I sit here one week before...
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Category: Aves (birds)
There have been several reports of mass die-offs of birds, linked to hail, lightning, fireworks, aircraft, aliens, each other, poison gases, and even pockets of oxygen free air. What is the explanation for so many highly unlikely events happening in such a short time period?
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Category: Notes from the North Country
The following is a fictionalized version of a true story recently told to me by two of the people involved. All the names of those still living have been changed. Please do not let this happen to you.
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Category: Notes from the North Country
Two weeks ago Julia and I took the road from the cabin to Longville and back and noticed that they had put up a new sign at each end of the curvy, hilly treacherous part, where you drive dangerously high above bogs and wooded kettles...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Notes from the North Country
This weekend was Deer Opener in Minnesota. So the traffic going up to the cabin resembled Fishing Opener, and the entire experience was like Fishing Opener, but with more blasting and less splashing. Also, we didn't see a single deer all weekend, and other critters...
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Category: Notes from the North Country
Every now and then I hear a sound like a bird hitting the window. Half the time I can also hear the other parts of the noise a shotgun makes, but half the time it sounds just like a bird hitting the window and nothing...
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Category: Insect
I've heard of "carrion beetles" but this is more like a "carry-on beetle": Amanda and I were outside the cabin in Cass County, Minnesota last week, cutting pieces of plywood for sub flooring, and we saw this creature among the debris. At first I thought...
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Category: Notes from the North Country
... I was able to demonstrate my special technique for testing if a particular floor is safe, or if it is so rotted out that it has to be replaced; You stand on it bouncing up and down a little bit and if you crash through to the basement, that part of the floor was bad.
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Category: Notes from the North Country
In our recent tour of the northern and western parts of Minnesota, we stopped briefly at Tamarack Wildlife Refuge. Here are a few shots:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:21 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
