Nature Happenings
- Average temperature: 67.6°F, Average precipitation: 3.48"
- Watch for Common Nighthawks hunting over open ground for flying insects in the late afternoon light.
- Hummingbirds are active at feeders and at flowers, sourcing protein from spiders and insects and sipping nectar for sugars.
- Male hummingbirds start their southbound migration this month, averaging 20 miles a day to wintering grounds in Central America and Mexico. Females head south later and juveniles will stay around until early October.
- Many of our summer visitors have finished their nesting cycle and will begin their migration south.
- Male Black-headed Grosbeaks will disappear from the landscape as they begin their southern migration; females and juveniles will follow in the coming weeks.
- Bullock's Orioles, our summer visitors that love to chatter notes high and low, will begin to migrate south.
- Perseids Meteor shower is mid-month.
- New Moon - August 27th
- Full Moon - August 11st