Nature Happenings

• Peak of River Bluet (dragonfly) flights

• Bison mating season

• First brood of immature hummingbirds begin to show up at nectar feeders early in the month.

• Thistle plants begin to seed; goldfinches gather thistledown for nesting material and begin nesting.

• Many species (robins, cardinals, bluebirds, etc.) may be in their second nesting.

• Mallards and Wood Ducks molt into "eclipse" plumage and are unable to fly for several weeks.

• Fall migration starts this month with shorebirds returning later in month.

• Katydids and Cicadas are in full chorus by late-month.

• Listen for the feeding screeches of young Barred and Great Horned Owls.

• Look for hummingbirds feeding on Trumpet Creeper and Jewelweed flowers.

• Many songbirds go into heavy molt.

• Great Blue Herons fledge.

• Delta Aquarids Meteor shower peaks in late-July.