Big snow falls, warm temperatures, and strong winds covers snow surface with a variety of seeds from trees.
This season the birch pollen has been particularly bad. Some people with asthma have had to leave the state. The peak was May 18 when pollen counts were 974 grains per cubic meter.
I was watching a flock of redpolls at my feeder when I noticed one unusual member with a huge white body. See photo.
"I am seeing spittlebugs deposits everywhere I look in the Sand Lake area."
We are seeing these little flies every outdoors. I don’t recall them like this in the past.
River otters (Lutra canadensis) observed in a lake that typically is home to beavers.
The forest on the East side of Cheney Lake is changing and the biggest change is the proliferation of May Day trees.
Spruce beetles damaged nearly 600,000 acres of forest in 2018, and the damage continues to grow.
In Southcentral Alaska, wasps seem to be everywhere. One Anchorage clinic has seen more than 250 sting patients this year.
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