Nature Happenings

• June is Perennial Garden Month & National Rivers Month

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• Sharp-Shinned Hawk eggs hatch and fledglings make their first flights after 23 – 27 days.

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• Purple Martin young fledge 28 – 35 days after hatching.

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• Many loons lay two eggs during the last week of June.

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• The Harlequin Ducks build nests along fast flowing streams, then incubate their eggs for 28 – 29 days.

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• Western Tanagers nest mid-month.

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• Little Brown and Hoary Bats give birth to their young.

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• Diminutive Daylilies and Bearded Iris in bloom.

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• The striking orange Columbia Lily blooms.

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• Young chickadees and Downy Woodpeckers follow their parents to suet feeders.

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• Thimbleberry ripens and packs a lot of raspberry flavor into a soft cuplike fruit.

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• The European forest plant, Wall Lettuce, blooms and releases its tiny parachutes.

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• Bird migration is finished. Birds that are here now are summer residents that nest.

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