Enterprise Dispatch Blog

Well, they are back, since the state has decided to return to the old look. The purpose is to make the squads more visible, probably due to the number of accidents and (unfortunately) fatalities that resulted from troopers being killed while making traffic stops.

Populations of Rusty Blackbirds are crashing, according to the Audobon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Their numbers have plummeted as much as 88-98% over the last few decades, according to data gathered from 1966 to 2006 by the North American Breeding Bird Survey and Christmas Bird Count. Bird watchers across North America are being asked to help scientists track migrating Rusty Blackbirds, April 1-7. Continue reading ‘Local bird watchers needed to track bird’s plight’

It’s a typical Minnesota spring — that is, winter refuses to let go of its grip, even though it is officially spring now. As requested by my co-workers, I snapped a shot of this snow bunny Friday, thanks to the snowstorm moving through — but by Saturday (see the “after” shot below), the bunny was gone. Nevertheless, there remains to be plenty of snow cover, even though I heard a weather forecaster say that everything would melt by Easter Sunday. Not so!

The weather continues to cartwheel this way and that with colder temps today and warmer days predicted, or as meteorologist Paul Douglas says “it may be the icing on a cold, strange cake we’ve all been forced to eat this winter.” Continue reading ‘Bye bye, Bunny’