1
Songbird nesting season is in full force
next two weeks


2
Gray Tree Frogs chorusing

3


4
Whorled Milkweed blooming

5
Listen for Cricket Frogs

6


7
Purple Coneflowers blooming

8
Look for White-tail bucks in velvet

9
Butterflyweed flowers covered with butterflies

10
Green-fringed Orchid blooming in old fields

11
Red Bats nursing their young
under the canopy of leves in trees


12
Trumpet Creeper, Elderberry, Yucca blooming

13
Chicory blooming on roadsides

14
Gray-headed Coneflowers blooming

15
Listen for Bobwhites

16
Brown-eyed Susans blooming

17
Bald eagles fledgling

18
Ticks! Baptisio in bloom

19
Peak of second breeding period of Gray Squirrels

20


21
Summer Solstice.
Very last spring migrants depart. Very first fall migrants return!


22


23
Watch for turtles on roadways

24


25


26
Mimosa blooming, look for hummingbirds

27
Listen for Gray Tree Frogs after a summer rain

28
Brown-eyed Susans blooming

29
Sedges and rushes blooming in wetlands

30



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