1
Wood Ducks on nests. Phoebes building nests

2
Barn Swallows return

3
Whip-poor-wills return

4
Flowering dogwoods blooming

5
Gray Tree Frogs calling

6
Early wildflowers in bloom

7
Peak of bluebird nesting season (1st brood)

8
Broad-winged hawks migrating

9
Juncos depart

10
Chimney Swifts arriving

11
Look for young Red Foxes playing around den sites

12
Look for morels now through the end of the month

13


14
Young Gray Squirrels are out of the nest

15
Whip-poor-wills are everywhere

16
Listen for Wild Turkeys gobbling

17


18
Redbuds in bloom

19
Showy Orchis blooms in rich woods

20
Most breeding neotropical songbirds
arrive and begin setting up territories

21
Hummingbirds arrive
from Mexico and Central America

22
Visit LaRue Pine hills for snake migration

23
Native rhododendrons bloom atop Pine Hills bluffs

24
Nighthawks arrive from South America . . .

25
. . . look/listen for them swooping at insects
under streetlights with "belching" call

26
Majority of neotropical migrant songbirds
return from Central and South America

27
Chuck-will's-widows sing at dawn and dusk

28
Dogwoods should be at their
flowering peak this week

29
Bobolinks singing in grasslands

30
Box Turtles breed at the mid to end of this month


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