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Backyard Almanac: Larry reports live from the trail - with a mouthful of berries

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published August 30, 2019 at 10:42 AM CDT

Last week, Larry spent Friday at an "undisclosed location." This week, he was back home, and so busy watching flocks of warblers hunting insects in the sunshine, cedar waxwings on a wild black cherry and frankly, stuffing black cherries into his mouth, that he had to call in from his morning walk.

(Also, check out Astro Bob's Backyard Astronomy this week to find out when to see the northern lights this weekend!)

Goldenrod. Larry emphasizes it's ragweed, not goldenrod, to blame for your sniffles. Hartley Park.

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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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