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These warm summer nights are good times to get out and do some star gazing and perhaps learn some new constellations. We are heading toward a new moon on…
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I have heard about someone getting quite excited recently about seeing a scarlet tanager in Turtle Mountain. Scarlet tanagers, as the name implies are…
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Some of you longtime North Dakota residents may recall the old North Dakota tourism campaign, North Dakota-Mountain Removal Project Completed. That…
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Happy New Year! I suspect that most of us were ready to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. Here is hoping 2021 is your best year ever. Things are getting…
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The winter finch forecast predicted that the pine siskins were likely to stay up north to take advantage of a good conifer seed crop across much of…
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As I drove down the highway past a pond shortly after ice-up a few weeks ago, I noticed a few small piles of what looked like mud and vegetation on the…
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The Holiday Season is coming quickly. Consider giving a gift that helps someone to better enjoy nature.When I was a kid, I gave my parents a bird feeder…
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I had some fun up at the International Peace Garden recently. I stopped along the road to go for a short walk. At a spot where a culvert connects two…
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Oak trees are interesting during the summer months, but come fall when they lose their leaves, they take on a completely different character. I was…
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There is a new moon on November 15! And, if the sky is clear over the next week or so, the dark sky should make for good conditions to see falling stars.…
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Deer gun season started Friday. No doubt antlers will be the topic of much conversation, some of it even true, whether it is about the one that got away,…
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I have had a couple of interesting sightings recently. A red-bellied snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) and some immature Harris’s sparrows.I recently…