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.
• Fall migration peaks for warblers and others.
• Monarch migration starts.
• Peak of Blue-winged Teal migration.
• In south Texas, Ocelots are breeding (e.g. Laguna Atascosa NWR).
• Hummingbird numbers peak around Labor Day, then start to dwindle; huge numbers along Texas coast.
• First flickers and kinglets can appear by the end of this month - they love suet.