Nature Happenings
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Baltimore Orioles depart for Central and South America this month.
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Common Garter Snake can bear dozens of live young in late summer/early fall.
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Bats are busy feeding, building fat for hibernation and migration.
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Blackbird (grackles, cowbirds and redwings) flocks can number in the thousands.
Common Grackle
Red Winged Blackbird
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Fall migration peaks for warblers and others.
Yellow Throated Warbler
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Monarch migration starts.
Monarch
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Peak of Blue-winged Teal migration.
Blue-Winged Teal
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Hummingbird numbers peak around Labor Day, then start to dwindle; huge numbers along Texas coast.
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Ruby Throated Hummingbird
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First flickers and kinglets can appear by the end of this month - they love suet.
Flicker
Ruby Crowned Kinglet