Nature / Fun Happenings
- September is National Wilderness, Taco, Cheese, Honey, Chicken, Baby Safety, Bourbon Heritage, Service Dog, Prostate Cancer and Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness, Thyriod Cancer Awareness, Responsible Dog Ownership Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery and Suicide Prevention Month
- Sept 2: New Moon, Sept 11: First Quarter Moon, Sept. 17: Full Moon , Sept 24 Last Quarter Moon
- Sept 1-7: National Nutrition Week
- Sept 7-13: Suicide Prevention Week and National Waffle Week
- Sept 15-21: Pollution Prevention Week.
- Sept 17-23: Constitution Week
- Sept 21 -27: Child Passenger Safety Week
- Sept 21-27: National Dog Week
- Sept 1: Labor Day and Be Kind Day
- Sept 2: VJ Day
- Sept 4: National Wildlife Day
- Sept 7: Salami Day and Grandparents Day
- Sept 8: Virgin Mary Day
- Sept 10: World Suicide Prevention Day
- Sept 11: National Day of Service and Remembrance
- Sept 13: National Peanut Day and International Chocolate Day
- Sept 16: National Guacamole Day
- Sept 17: Constitution, and Citizenship Day
- Sept 18: Air Force Day
- Sept 20: Mayflower Day
- Sept 21: International Day of Peace and Wife Appreciation Day
- Sept 22: Autumnal Equinox 8:17 pm EDT - almost equal amounts of day and night
- Sept 22: Family Day
- Sept 26: Johnny Appleseed Day
- Sept 28: National Drink Beer Day and Gold Star Mothers 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.