These events can be used to anticipate upcoming seasonal happenings and will help to compare this year with last. 1 - Many farmers in southern Minnesota are combining soybeans. Virginia creeper and sumacs showing colorful reds. Yellow-rumped warblers and American robins are feeding on red cedar berries. Some American toads still above ground.
House sparrows dust-bathing.
Eastern phoebes and white-throated sparrows eating wild grapes. Fall colors peaking in Brainerd and Aitkin areas. 3 - Common cattails shedding seeds on carriers. Fireside, Haralson and Connell Red apples being harvested. Surface water temperature of Lake Minnetonka is 65 degrees F. Moose in northern Minn. are in their rutting season, which occurs from midSept.