🌻 June is Perennial Garden Month & National Rivers Month 🌻 Bird migration is finished. 🌻 Birds that are here now are summer residents that nest. 🌻 Feeders can become busy with visiting parents & fledglings. 🌻 House Wrens are nesting in the northern part of region. 🌻 Keep your feeders & bird baths clean & your seed fresh. 🌻 Wood Duck & Mallard Ducklings hatch/venture forth. 🌻 Canada Geese begin molting. 🌻 Fawns continue to be born through mid-month. 🌻 Bats give birth. 🌻 Young Woodchucks & Raccoons emerge/venture out with moms. 🌻 Bullfrogs begin calling. 🌻 Crickets begin nightly serenade.
Month of July Nature Happenings:
🌻NABA National Butterfly count. 🌻Except for goldfinches and late bluebirds, bird breeding and nesting season ends this month. 🌻Mississippi Kites begin fledging their young. 🌻Mallards and Wood Ducks molt into their "eclipse" plumage and are unable to fly for several weeks. 🌻Watch local ponds for immature herons and bitterns. 🌻Fall shorebird migration begins this month. 🌻Blackbirds begin to flock and appear at feeders. 🌻First brood of immature hummingbirds begin to show up at nectar feeders early in the month. 🌻Hummingbirds begin staging south and start showing up more at feeders. 🌻Barn Swallow fall migration begins. 🌻Delta Aquarids Meteor shower peaks in late-July.
