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  • 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.