Nature Happenings

  • Baltimore Orioles depart for Central and South America this month.

 

  • Common Garter Snake can bear dozens of live young in late summer/early fall.

 

  • Bats are busy feeding, building fat for hibernation and migration.

 

  • Blackbird (grackles, cowbirds and redwings) flocks can number in the thousands.

             Common Grackle

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             Red Winged Blackbird

 

  • Fall migration peaks for warblers and others.

           Yellow Throated Warbler

 

  • Monarch migration starts.

            Monarch

 

  • Peak of Blue-winged Teal migration.

              Blue-Winged Teal

 

  • Hummingbird numbers peak around Labor Day, then start to dwindle; huge numbers along Texas coast.

            Ruby Throated Hummingbird

 

  • First flickers and kinglets can appear by the end of this month - they love suet.

              Flicker

             Ruby Crowned Kinglet