Ruby-throated hummingbirds come to fuchsia flowers. American robins eating ripe red-osier dogwood fruit. 22 - Purple loosestrife begins blooming in wet ditches. Common elderberry shrubs at peak of bloom. Adult purple martins feeding young nestlings.
Tartarian honeysuckle has much ripe and ripening fruit.
At Brooklyn Park, first sweet corn is tasseling. In St. Peter, first ripe garden raspberries picked and first hollyhock flowers open. 24 - Jackman clematis at bloom peak. Thirteen-lined ground squirrel young out exploring on their own. Blue flag iris blooms in Finland area wet spots.