{"id":1266,"date":"2012-11-21T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T12:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/blogs\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2012-11-21T08:30:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T12:30:41","slug":"many-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/many-moons\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/11\/ID-10041295.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1312\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/11\/ID-10041295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/11\/ID-10041295.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/11\/ID-10041295-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>Back in August, we delved into the world of astronomy with our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/blogs\/yourgreatoutdoors\/once-in-a-blue-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Once in a Blue Moon<\/a><\/strong> post, which revealed the story behind the common phrase. But a blue moon is just the beginning. Each full moon has a colorful name and back story that we owe to the\u00a0Native Americans, who timed their lives by natural and seasonal\u00a0events. Here, a closer look at the three upcoming full moons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Beaver Moon (November)\u00a0<\/strong>The Farmer&#8217;s Almanac states that the Full Beaver Moon (set this year for November 28) may have had one or two meanings. It may have meant that the beavers were active getting ready for winter or that it was time for the Native Americans to put out their beaver traps in order to secure furs for the coming winter months.\u00a0Interestingly enough, from 1750 to 1930, you would have been hard-pressed to find a beaver in Massachusetts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cold Moon (December)\u00a0<\/strong>If you have any questions as to the origin of the name Cold Moon, just imagine living through a New England December (when temps tend to dip below freezing at night) without central heating, insulation, or even solid walls. Or how about braving nor&#8217;easters without these comforts of home. These thoughts alone are testament to the amazing facts of survivorship of Native Americans of the Northeast pre-1620. The Cold Moon? What else should it have been called?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wolf Moon (January)\u00a0<\/strong>Wolves, now rarely seen in Massachusetts, were still a concern for the residents of the eastern half of the state in the 1750s. \u00a0Come midwinter, when food was at its scarcest, wolves gathered near native villages and howled.\u00a0Their calls, however frightful, became a sign of the season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Get Outdoors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Full moons on cloudless nights offer abundant opportunities for nocturnal wildlife sightings. Join an evening\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/catalog\/short_results.php?sanctuary_code=all&amp;start_date=11\/21\/2012&amp;end_date=mm\/dd\/yyyy&amp;schedule_week_evening=checked&amp;selected_page=1\" target=\"_blank\">program<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to see what lurks in the night. As you stand in a grassland listening to the <em>whoosh<\/em> of the wind or the hoot of an owl, you&#8217;ll be much closer to the Massachusetts landscape as it once was, so many moons ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Image courtesy of nixxphotography \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\" target=\"_blank\">FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August, we delved into the world of astronomy with our Once in a Blue Moon post, which revealed the story behind the common phrase. But a blue moon is just the beginning. Each full moon has a colorful name and back story that we owe to the\u00a0Native Americans, who timed their lives by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[20,70],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get-outdoors","category-nature-notes","tag-astronomy","tag-moons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-kq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":596,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/once-in-a-blue-moon\/","url_meta":{"origin":1266,"position":0},"title":"Once in a Blue Moon","author":"Mass Audubon","date":"August 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Ever wonder where the expression \u201cOnce in a Blue Moon\u201d comes from? 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