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This entry was posted on June 14, 2015, in June, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged 17 year cicada, blackeyed susan, bullfrog, chickory, chimney swift, cottonwod fluff, crawdad, delphinium, deptford pink, dogbane, dragonflies, echinacea, elderberry, milkweed, musk thistile, nighthawk, oxeye daisy, penstemon, poison hemlock, prickly pear cactus, salsify, sensitive brier, spiderwort, spittlebug, vetch, white sweet clover, wild indigo, yarrow. Leave a comment

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Ten Years of Wild Douglas County!

Welcome to 10 years of Ken’s book Wild Douglas County. To celebrate, he’ll be sharing special events during the coming year, and you can also buy a signed copy of the book for a celebratory price of $15 + $2 shipping (regular price: $20). Click here to purchase your copy via Paypal.

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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 around 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 cycles, migrations and fur growth/shedding.

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 chart 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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