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February 22, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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February 15 – 21, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on February 15, 2021, in Prairie and tagged bird seed, chiggers, deer, geese, raptors, rodents, snowflakes, ticks. Leave a comment

February 8 – 14, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on February 7, 2021, in Prairie and tagged bird feeders, sun columns. Leave a comment

February 1 – 7, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on January 31, 2021, in Prairie and tagged coyotes, wild turkeys. Leave a comment

January 25 – 31, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on January 24, 2021, in Prairie and tagged muskrat, rabbits. 2 Comments

January 18 – 24, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on January 18, 2021, in Prairie and tagged fur, hedge apples, moss, oak leaves, packrat nests, pocket gopher, raspberry canes, scat, sedges. Leave a comment

January 11 – 17, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on January 10, 2021, in Prairie and tagged beetles, bird feeders, coyotes, grasshoppers, hedge apples, moths, tree cavities. Leave a comment

January 4 – 10, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on January 3, 2021, in Prairie and tagged antlers, deer, raptors, rodents, snow melt, songbirds, waterfowl, winter adaptation. Leave a comment

December 28, 2020 – January 3, 2021 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on December 27, 2020, in Prairie and tagged Barred owl, carynmirriamgoldberg.com, feederwatch.org. Leave a comment

December 21 – 27, 2020 Kaw Valley Almanac

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Twelve Years of Wild Douglas County!

If you like the weekly posts of Kaw Valley Almanac, you might be interested in purchasing a compilation of these kinds of posts that Ken Lassman has put together into a book, along with essays on the land and the ecosystems of the area. This book was designed not to be just another coffee table book full of pictures; rather it was designed to be used as a guide to accompany you when you take your treks outdoors to observe nature first hand. You can get this book at a number of local bookstores or order it here for $15 + $2 shipping (regular price: $20). Click here to purchase your copy via Paypal.

Kaw Valley Almanac

Ken Lassman has been keeping this almanac for over a decade, He invites you to share your observations and photos in the comments section. You can find his book Wild Douglas County at The Raven Bookstore and The Community Mercantile in Lawrence.

 


Light of Day Returns Moon: February


The Osage’s name, Light of Day Returns Moon, points to the fact that this time of year adds 13 minutes more sunlight per week, and the weekly gains will accelerate. Light is more of a biological trigger for animals than temperature, and the length of the photoperiod triggers endocrine activities that lead to a host of behaviors including breeding cycled, migrations and fur growth.


You may notice that not only is the sun rising earlier and setting later, but it is also migrating northward at the point of sunset/sunrise on the horizon. another way to char the sun’s progression north is to watch the shadows at noon grow progressively shorter as the transit point at noon gets higher in the sky.


Fear not–spring is on its way, and the signs are fun to ferret out in these prevernal days: look for reddening of dogwood twigs, while willow twigs turn yellow; increasing bird songs in the morning; the emerging snowdrops and crocuses, perhaps the early croaks of the western chorus frog on a warmer evening after a rain.

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Kaw Valley Links

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Kansas Birding Listserv
University of Kansas Student Farm
Sustainability Action Network
Planet Drum Foundation
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Poet Laureate blog
Kansas Land Trust
Alliance for Wild Ethics
Heartland All Species Foundation
Stan Slaughter, Eco-Troubadour
Community Mercantile Educational Foundation
National Academies of Science information about climate change
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