LEARN ABOUT CREATURES

(IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS)

this project is called LOCAL BIOLOGY (until we think of something better)

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We went with Adele on an owl-monitoring survey. We didn't really know what to expect. I hadn't had time to study owl calls before hand, and I hadn't taken the official owl-monitoring test, either. I just knew that after work, the three of us were going to leave the Twin Cities and head off to a far away county and listen for owls.

Chacha
2008/04/18 - 1:00am
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Monarch Larve Monitoring
Monarch Larve Monitoring
I'm really on a roll this summer. The other night (Tuesday) I went monarch butterfly monitoring. This was with Adele and a girl scout named Paige.

The place where we went monitoring usually has a study going on every tuesday night during the summer. They hand out magnifying glasses (one of which i need to return as it went home with me), laminated cards with stages of egg, larvae (caterpillars).

A woman showed us a milkweed plant with a first instar larvae. It was really really small.

Chacha
2008/06/20 - 3:05am
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Albino squirrel
See...other people have also seen the albino squirrels.
From Andrew Ciscel/flickr

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A Regular Squirrel
From Dave & Bry/flickr

Minneapolis is completely overrun by squirrels. This was the very first thing I noticed when I was looking for my apartment - that squirrels scurry around all day long, at any hour.

Chacha
2008/07/05 - 10:57am
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Monarch Larve Monitoring
Today we went again to the Monarch Butterfly monitoring site. It had been three weeks since I last went monitoring.

Last time we went, the field was full of littler plants - maybe only 2 feet tall. But today the goldenrod plants were as tall as I was (and they were already showing galls -- which means that the baby goldenrod gall flies are munching away getting ready for winter.)

Chacha
2008/07/09 - 12:06am
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frog monitoring

Chacha
2008/05/08 - 1:00am
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Tonight on my way home from botanical illustration class, I had been telling MG about this project. I was telling her about how people don't know the trees in their own yard, city, parks, state - (or, in my case, any trees) - and then when i got home, after talking about my tree - i saw a speckle-bellied owl fly above the car and land in the norway spruce (60 feet tall) - the owl sat there for quite a while.

Something special came with the owl, most certainly a blessing. \

Chacha
2008/05/08 - 1:00am

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