Snow this week will present some special wildlife opportunities
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
A coating of snow reveals the travel route of some small critter through a pipe under a road. Marcus Schneck photo.
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White stuff across the landscape reveals a lot of secrets from nature.
Start with the basics of tracking. Within a few hours of the end of storm, the critters will begin moving across and through the snow.
Those first tracks laid down on fresh snow, before the sun begins its melting action and the wind starts to erode, are the most well-defined. They reveal the most about the animal or bird that left them behind. Maybe it’s missing a toe or otherwise showing some old injury. Maybe the gait of the animal is off, favoring one limb over another.
Nate Crane watches birds along the Boardman River. Special to the Record-Eagle
BEULAH â If you take a look at their website, most of the Benzie Audubon Societyâs birding events for the 2020 season were canceled.
All but one: The 121st annual Christmas Bird Count.
More than 50,000 bird watchers from Paraguay to Alaska, from Newfoundland to Guam, will participate in the National Audubon Societyâs Christmas Bird Count this December. There are thousands of events scattered all across North and South America â including several in the Grand Traverse region.
Some compilers have decided to cancel its 2020 bird count, but others, for the most part, have not had to adjust to the pandemic.