Gardeners are picking strawberries, pulling rhubarb and radishes, and cutting leaf lettuce and spinach. 13 - Canada thistle begins blooming. Eastern cottonwood trees continue spitting seeds on their cotton carriers. Yellow water lilies blooming. 14 - Marshlands look mostly green now that cattail leaves are up about full height.
Juvenile mourning doves come to feeding station.
In Walker area, banded purple butterflies are on the wing, purple martins and eastern phoebes are vocal, and columbine and Canada anemone are among the showy blooming roadside plants. 15 - Baltimore oriole young fledged. Southern Minnesota farmers are cultivating corn. 16 - Staghorn sumac just starting to bloom. Some adult Canada geese still flying.