8 - Catalpa trees and Japanese tree lilacs blooming nicely. Cedar waxwings feeding on scarlet elderberry fruit. Tree swallow pair feeding young nestlings. Golden Valley gardener harvested his first zucchini. 9 - Large sulphur shelf mass on an old oak tree early for this orange and yellow fungus.
Blue vervain begins blooming.
Narrow-leaved cattails shedding pollen. 10 - Tawny daylily begins blooming. Thousands of fireflies on the wing this evening, near Fairmont. Much alfalfa haying going on in Hewitt area. Orange hawkweed blooms in Park Rapids area.