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SEPTEMBER NATURE HAPPENINGS
• Important migration month! More birds are in our area now than any other month. Keep the seed and suet feeders full!
• Monarch Butterfly migration peaks mid-month, September 16-22, migrating 50 – 100 miles in a day.
• First Juncos and White-throated Sparrows can appear by the end of this month, favorite food is millet.
• Hummingbird numbers peak towards end of the month. Keep feeders full.
• Blackbird (grackles, cowbirds and redwings) flocks can number in the thousands.
• Ruby-crowned Kinglets appear from their northern breeding grounds in northern Canada and Alaska. They love suet or bark butter bits.
• American Goldfinch juveniles can be seen and heard harassing adults for food at feeders. Also look for them in your flower beds with Coneflowers, Black-eyed Susan’s and other seed-producing flowers.
• Robins are in large flocks, feeding on crab apples and other berry producing shrubs and trees.
• American Goldfinch adults begin their second molt. By the end of October, it will be hard to tell the male from the female Goldfinch. Check out David Sibley’s molting sequence for the Goldfinch at: http://www.sibleyguides.com/2012/05/the-annual-plumage-cycle-of-a-male-american-goldfinch/
• Raptors begin their southern migration. Visit Hawk Mountain, PA. This is a Wild Birds Unlimited “Pathways to Nature” site. Major month for Broad-winged Hawks numbering into the hundreds on some days - you may see 'kettles' of 1,000 Broad-winged Hawks. Also, peak month for Bald Eagles and Kestrels.
• Turtle eggs hatch; hatchlings head for the nearest water.
• Wooly Caterpillars are out and about. Did you know they freeze solid during the winter?
• Bats are busy feeding, building fat for hibernation and migration.
• Bucks are polishing their antlers; look for buck rubs.
• Ripe hickory nuts, walnuts and other “mast” may distract squirrels from your feeders.
• Goldenrod and Asters are in bloom
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