"Through the Seasons"

by Jim Gilbert
Campus Naturalist and Director, Linnaeus Arboretum

Jim Gilbert is a widely known and respected naturalist and recorder of Minnesota's flora and fauna. He serves as a consultant for WCCO Radio, and his phenological observations are also found in regular columns in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Waconia Patriot as well as the annual Minnesota Weatherguide/Environment Calendar. Click below to read phenology reports and weekly journal entries.


JOURNAL ENTRIES - 2000-2001

May 4, 2001 - It's Rhubarb Time

April 27, 2001 - Painted Turtles
April 20, 2001 - Barn Swallows
April 13, 2001 - Arrival of the Loon
April 6, 2001 - Kite Flying

March 30, 2001 - Nesting Canada Geese
March 23, 2001 - Bluebirds
March 2, 2001 - Spring is...

February 16, 2001 - Gray Squirrels...

January 26, 2001 - Peak of winter
January 19, 2001 - Winter and...
January 12, 2001 - White Frost 
January 5, 2001 - Minnesota winter 

December 29, 2000 - Cardinals 
December 15, 2000 - Outdoors journal 
December 8, 2000 - Evergreens...
December 1, 2000 - Muskrats on ice sheets

November 24, 2000 - What to do...
November 17, 2000 - Help birds...
November 10, 2000 - Bucks battle...
November 3, 2000 - Deer bite...

October 27, 2000 - Cold-blooded...
October 20, 2000 - Outdoors Journal
October 13, 2000 - Why Leaves...
October 6, 2000 - Trees...

September 29, 2000 - Autumn Journal
September 22, 2000 - Autumn
September 15, 2000 - Hawks
September 8, 2000 - Orioles

  ARCHIVED JOURNAL ENTRIES

1998-99 Academic Year
1999-00 Academic Year
 

MONTHLY PHENOLOGY - 1999

**Phenology - December 1999**
**Phenology - November**
**Phenology - October**
**Phenology - September**
**Phenology - August**
**Phenology - July**
**Phenology - June**
**Phenology - May**
**Phenology - April**
**Phenology - March**
**Phenology - February**
**Phenology - January 1999**
 

ARCHIVED PHENOLOGY

**1998 Monthly Phenology**
 

* The dated journal entries were originally published as "Jim Gilbert's Outdoors Journal" on Fridays on the Outdoors page of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.  Portions of the monthly phenologies may also be found in the appropriate year's Minnesota Weatherguide/Environment Calendar, published by the Freshwater Foundation and WCCO Radio/Television, to which Gilbert has contributed since 1977.