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Backyard Almanac
Phenology with local naturalist Larry Weber every Friday morning at 8:20 on Northland Morning.

Backyard Almanac - a cheerful but disgusting tale from guest host Sparky Stensaas

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published September 22, 2017 at 1:24 PM CDT
©Sparky Stensaas. Used with permission.

Photo-naturalist Sparky Stensaas joins us as guest host of Backyard Almanac this morning, and brings us a story you probably won't hear over the breakfast table.

And there's a good reason for that.

Credit ©Sparky Stensaas. Used with permission.
Parasitic Jaeger on the hunt, chasing Ring-billed Gulls over Lake Superior [September 24; Wisconsin Point, Superior, Wisconsin]

It's Jaegerfest at Wisconsin Point this weekend!  Find out more about all the events here!

There are more of Sparky's jaeger photographs here. 

Who is the jaeger when it's at home?  Find out in this recent post from Sparky's The PhotoNaturalist blog.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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