Nature Happenings
- August can be the hottest month inland, and it can be a month of foggy and overcast days along the coast.
- Most landscape trees need a deep watering this month.
- Flame Eucalyptus and Mimosa Trees flower this month.
- Month of the spider: their numbers and webs reach their peak this month.
- This is the peak month for summer wildflowers to bloom.
- Shorebird migration builds and waterfowl migration starts.
- Monarch butterfly migration begins.
- Squirrel young are weaned.
- Hawk migration begins. Visit Hawk Hill in Marin County, the best viewing spot on the west coast.
- American Goldfinches finish nesting late this month.
- Final brood of hummingbirds begin to appear at feeders.
- Perseids Meteor shower is mid-month.