September is National Wilderness, Taco, Cheese, Rice, Honey, Chicken, Baby Safety, Bourbon Heritage, Service Dog, Prostate Cancer and Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness, Responsible Dog Ownership and Suicide Prevention Month • Sept 4: Last Quarter Moon, Sept 10: New Moon, Sept. 18: First Quarter Moon, Sept 26: Full Moon • Sept 6-12: National Waffle and Suicide Prevention Week • Sept 14-20: Pollution Prevention Week • Sept 17-23: Constitution Week • Sept 20-26: Child Passenger Safety Week • Sept 21-27: National Dog Week • Sept 1: Be Kind Day • Sept 2: VJ Day • Sept 4: National Wildlife Day • Sept 7: Labor and Salami Day • Sept 9: National Teddy Bear Day • Sept 10: World Suicide Prevention Day • Sept 11: National Day of Service and Remembrance • Sept 13: National Grandparents Day • Sept 13: National Peanut Day and International Chocolate Day • Sept 17: Constitution, and Citizenship Day • Sept 18: Air Force Day • Sept 19: Mayflower Day • Sept 20: Wife Appreciation Day and Yom Kippur • Sept 21: International Day of Peace • Sept 23: Autumnal Equinox 0:05 am EDT - almost equal amounts of day and night • Sept 25: Family Day • Sept 26: Johnny Appleseed and Dumpling Day • Sept 27: Gold Star Mothers Day • Sept 28: National Drink Beer and Family Day • Sept 29: VFW Day • Do not take down your hummingbird feeder yet. Their migration is not correlated to feeders being available! In fact, feeders can help fuel migrants moving through. • Hummingbird migration peaks middle of the month with most hummingbirds departed by the end of month. • Migrating Brown Creepers, Ruby-crowned and Golden-crowned Kinglets Appear near the end of the month. • Final egg laying for the Eastern Monarch Butterfly and continue their migration south from Ontario. • Using their antlers, male Moose start to fight for females. • Little and Big Brown Bat mating seasons complete. • Blackbird (grackles, cowbirds and redwings) flocks can number in the thousands. • Robins are in large flocks, feeding on crab apples. • Broad-winged Hawk migration starts and peaks mid- to late-month. • American Goldfinches start to molt.
