- In wetlands, dragonflies and damselflies quickly dart over ponds.
- Bobcat "kittens" (young) are born in dens found in caves, rock crevices, or hollow logs or trees.
- Listen for crickets singing in the evening air.
- Watch for sulfur butterflies gathering around puddles - butterfly watching is at its best this month.
- Acorns fall from trees, providing meals for hungry wood ducks, deer, and turkeys.
- The prairie's purple coneflower is in bloom.
- Jewelweed's orange blossoms. Later, when this "touch-me-not" has ripened, help send the seeds shooting by simply touching a bulging seed pod. They are quicker than the eye!
- Wild blackberries ripening awaiting hungry hikers and bears to strip them from the vine.
- Warblers, shorebirds, and nighthawks begining to migrate south.
- Wood duck families can be seen floating along rivers and ponds near overhanging branches and hollow standing trees.