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Some interesting facts about October---as the earth cools, summer wanes, and we get ready for winter, everything slows down, the ants moving 1/10 as fast as they might on a warm summer day, the crickets down to 40 notes a minute from the high of 140 in summer. The fires are ebbing in insect life, and as the chill deepens, the frost will silence most all insects. Perhaps that's why we have no lake flies to speak of, cooler, drier weather this fall. And of course, it's the beginning of the mass migration of birds, though it's hard to tell yet, as we see mostly herons, ducks, and Canadian geese, some seagulls, nothing that suggests a migration. It will come when we notice the black and white bufflehead ducks arriving on the lake.
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