17 - Choke cherry shrubs at bloom peak. Wild geranium, Virginia waterleaf and columbine are showy blooming woodland wildflowers. Many temporary ponds and flooded farm fields in south central Minnesota. At Grygla, plum trees are in full bloom and crabapples are just starting. Common grackle young leaving nests.
Lawns continue to be lush green from the above normal rainfall.
19 - Black field crickets begin chirping. New candles on Scotch, red and white pines. Red pines shedding pollen. Morel mushrooms, our Minnesota state mushroom, continue to be collected in numbers by southern Minnesota mushroom fanciers. Black flies bothersome in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.