These events can be used to anticipate June 2000 happenings and will help to compare this year with last. Canada geese have just begun losing their primary feathers and will soon be in their flightless stage. Mourning doves feeding young nestlings. 2 - Smooth wild rose first flowering. Wild grape in bloom and fragrant.
Barn swallows using fresh mud to build nests.
3 - First flowers open on Kentucky coffee trees. Baltimore oriole parents very busy feeding their young nestlings. Much alfalfa hay harvesting going on in southern Minnesota. Hooded merganser seen with 11 ducklings on pond in Woodbury. Juvenile eastern chipmunks out and about.