Fall Migration Begins

I suspect nigh avid birders are to the lowest degree enamored amongst summer.  Summer residents as well as permanent residents, good known to the local birders, convey settled inward for the flavor as well as are relatively inactive inward the summertime heat; rare vagrants, the fuel for avid birders, are all only unheard of during the summertime months.  We naturalists unremarkably plough our attending to insects, amphibians, reptiles as well as summertime wildflowers.

But the autumn migration genuinely begins inward mid-summer every bit the start moving ridge of shorebirds arrives from Arctic breeding grounds, on their agency to southern beaches or wetlands.  En route, they halt to residue as well as feed on mudflats that business our lakes as well as reservoirs or inward the flooded fields that thunderstorms operate out inward their wake.

The earliest migrants unremarkably brand it past times early-mid July as well as the exceed of the "fall shorebird migration" mostly occurs from August through September; piece of cake migrants (e.g. dunlins) may nevertheless last observed across the Heartland inward early on November.  Providing around consolation for bored summertime birders, the migrant shorebirds besides offering promise that the oppressive summertime days are numbered as well as volition eventually hand agency to the glorious flavor of autumn.