Monday, May 18, 2020

Alder Flycatchers have returned! Global Warming hits northern minnesota hard with a 2 degree Celsius temp rise already since late 1800s

So there's about 4 - minimum 4 Alder Flycatchers have returned to the mini-forest swamp at EcoEcho Forest Cultivation.

https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2019/07/water-pipeline-at-restoration-pasture.html

I've blogged on them from last year. I tried covering up my shroom log soak tanks better so hopefully I don't kill the birds again by accident. Somebody killed the robin eggs I saw from last time - the robin had a nest only about 3 feet off the ground. Pine Martin? They feast on bird eggs in the spring - according to the BBC Planet Earth doc I started rewatching for the umpteenth time....

Most of my readers now are from the academia.edu uploads - since they do promotional algorithms. So I get several readers a day from all over the world. But guess who now is checking out Ancient Advanced Acoustic Alchemy? Eden Prairie - home of spring forest qigong. haha.

So we're having unusually warm weather now up north. I hope my mushroom logs survive. We had a cold dry spring and now it's switched to an overly warm dry spring. There was rain farther south... but missed up north - - AGAIN!!

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/05/april-2020-temperatures-very-high.html

Just as I suspected....

Arctic sea ice is getting very thin and, at this time of year, it is melting rapidly from below, due to rising temperature of the Arctic Ocean.

Arctic sea ice volume has been at record low since the start of 2020, as illustrated by the image on the right.
 As the temperature of the oceans keeps rising, more heat will reach sediments at the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean that contain vast amounts of methane, as discussed in this page and this post. The danger is that this heat will destabilize the ice and the hydrates, resulting in huge releases of methane.
 So the more farther north toward the arctic then the more extreme the warmer:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/climate-solutions/climate-change-minnesota/
  seven counties in Minnesota have warmed more than 2 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century — about twice the global average.
 A Washington Post analysis of historical temperature data found that seven counties in Minnesota have warmed more than 2 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century — about twice the global average.


But in recent years, the U.S. government has backed a project to transplant about a dozen nonnative species here, as researchers try to answer an increasingly urgent question: Can humans help trees keep pace with climate change?
Palik pointed out bitternut hickory from southern Minnesota and Illinois. Black cherry and white oak, whose historical range has been 100 miles or more to the south. Ponderosa pine from Nebraska and South Dakota.
This is what I did when I planted an acre of Chestnut trees on our ten acre forest (part of a contiguous larger forest tract) - Chestnuts are not native to that part of Minnesota but they thrive in the warmer weather.

I'm about half way done with my inoculation so far this spring. Who knows when I will get a harvest or IF I will get one? I am soaking logs for 4 hours since the mycelium supplier - the Mycologists from UW-Madison - say to NOT force the first mushroom fruiting. So I need a long cool rain....

Meanwhile lots of birds have returned from far south - Alders and I tried taping some warbler early this am just after 5 a.m.

Spring Forest is very magical. I did a two hour full lotus session - and several one hour full lotus sessions. I am still burning off my winter fat reserves since I delayed doing inoculation due to the Pandemic.

I saw BOTH species of tree frogs in the forest. 


The Flicker is being very loud constantly but I have not seen it yet!


So the wintering "wood frog" I found - it was still UNfreezing! It could barely move! I thought I had killed it since I accidentally sat on it. But it was moving a bit - seemed ok. Maybe I didn't sit on it. I was checking out a skull - it must have been a baby Wilson's Snipe bird - the skull matches that shape.


Oh it was the Spring Pepper - strange that the Spring Pepper is gray while the gray treefrog is green!

So the mosquitoes are starting to come out already so I put up the Wilderness Lodge tent.

 You can use the Big Dipper to find Polaris, which is also known as the North Star. Notice that a line from the two outermost stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper points to Polaris. And notice that Polaris marks the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper. The northern sky is a large clock, with Polaris at its center.
The Big Dipper is very bright and large - as if I could almost touch it!

I heard a wolf howl last night!

I know what the coyotes sound like since I hear them regularly up north - but not yet this spring - maybe that pack got killed off?

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