Gray catbird parents are feeding young nestlings. At Linnaeus Arboretum in St. Peter, rugosa roses are blooming nicely and very fragrant, and butterfly-weed is first flowering. 20 - Masses of white Dutch clover blooming in lawns. Tawny daylily now blooming. Garden potatoes have begun blooming.
Honey bees forage on yellow sweet clover and staghorn sumac flowers.
21 - First ripe garden raspberries. White sweet clover, common mullein and common milkweed begin blooming. 22 - First of the new generation of monarch butterflies on the wing. Common pricklypear cactus now blooming. On a summer evening you can observe common nighthawks flying, calling and feeding over most of our Minnesota and Wisconsin cities and towns.