September Nature News!

🍁Hummingbird numbers peak around Labor Day, then start to dwindle; huge numbers along Texas coast.
🍁Blackbird (grackles, cowbirds and redwings) flocks can number in the thousands.
🍁Broadwings and other hawks pass through.
🍁Peak of Blue-winged Teal migration.
🍁First flickers and kinglets can appear by the end of this month - they love suet.
🍁Migration month! More birds are in the area now than any other month.
🍁American Goldfinch juveniles can be seen and heard harassing adults for food at feeders.
🍁Ruby-crowned Kinglets appear.
🍁First juncos and White-throated Sparrows can appear by the end of this month.
🍁Robins are in large flocks, feeding on crab apples.
🍁Peak migration for Bald Eagle and other raptors.
🍁House Wrens begin arriving in the southeast in late-September.

October Nature News!

🍂 Cedar Waxwings arrive.
🍂 Look for scarce Rufous Hummingbirds to arrive throughout the region.
🍂 Wintering sparrows, towhees and juncos arrive late in the month - they all love millet in a ground feeder.
🍂 It's a good time to install bluebird winter roost boxes.
🍂 American Goldfinches start to return this month (in the south of the region).
🍂 First Sprague's Pipits and longspurs arrive for the winter.
🍂 Monarch migration reaches its peak late in month, sometimes in uncountable numbers.
🍂 Sandhill Cranes arrive in small flocks late in the month.
🍂 Waterfowl migration continues to build; lots of geese can be seen passing over at the end of the month.
🍂 Bald Eagle nest building and maintenance begins.
🍂 Great Horned Owl males begin hooting in nesting territory.
🍂 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers arrive.
🍂 Sedge Wrens arrive in mid-October.
🍂 Peak fall migration for American Robins.
🍂 Orionids meteor shower is late-October.