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Kaw Valley Almanac for Jan. 22-28, 2024
This turkey will get warmer if cloudier weather this week, and perchance the opportunity to find more bugs and scraps to eat as the crusty snow softens and melts away in the predicted rain.
This turkey will get warmer if cloudier weather this week, and perchance the opportunity to find more bugs and scraps to eat as the crusty snow softens and melts away in the predicted rain.
This downy woodpecker has been doing double duty: pecking on the rail to inform other woodpeckers that he has intentions to make this area his territory, in addition to snatching a sunflower seed now and then.
Local conservationists will cheer if Kansas moves forward with a ban on selling popular but invasive ornamental pear trees in the state.
Lawrence is preparing for more winter weather to come after at least 3 to 8 inches of snow settled Tuesday combined with heavy winds.
If you look carefully, there are rabbit tracks to the right of the coyote tracks. It’s likely the coyote was “reading the tracks” left by the rabbit, following in hopes of a meal.
A symphony of fire and flame enveloped a frosty Monarch Waystation on Thursday morning in south-central Lawrence. The purposeful fire was part of a carefully orchestrated plan to encourage biodiversity outside the home of Dena Podrebarac and Heidi Rios.
College students are testing private wells in south-central Kansas. The results are prompting families to install treatment systems to reduce nitrate levels.
Around dusk, many flocks of blackbirds find a safe place to alight in the upper reaches of cottonwoods, oaks, elms and other tall trees. You can see this dynamic play itself out across the state every year just past the winter solstice.
This immature hawk perched on a cedar limb is looking for an
rodent or stray bird for a quick meal. Judging from the number
of hawks on power line poles, fences and trees this time of
year, there is enough to live on.
Biologists at K-State are responding to a persistent 15-year decline in the state’s wild turkey population by launching a $1.8 million study of bird habitat, nesting, reproduction and survival to refine harvest and land management strategies.
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