Monthly Archives: January 2017

Signs of Winter 9: More Birds!

We are coming up on a very exciting, four-day weekend! (Come to think of it: what four-day weekend is not exciting?) From Friday, February 17 to Monday, February 20, birders and bird enthusiasts from over 130 countries will be participating … Continue reading

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Signs of Winter 8: House Cat Day #5!

Four years ago I wrote about Groundhog Day and suggested that we change this early February day-of-prediction to focus not on an animal that is sound asleep in his grass-lined burrow dreaming of gardens to ravage, but rather on an … Continue reading

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Signs of Winter 7: Communities, Organisms and Science

An ecological “community” is the sum of all of the populations (i.e. all of the groupings of each species) living in an ecosystem. When you stand in the middle of an ecosystem you can see many of its species and … Continue reading

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Signs of Winter 6: One Hundred Words for Snow!

(some information in this post was published in a January 23, 2014 blog) Frank Boas was an anthropologist who studied and lived with the Inuit people of northern Canada in the late Nineteenth Century. He is credited (or, sometimes, blamed) … Continue reading

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