May Nature Happenings in the Central Rockies

• Big Brown Bats might be seen swooping at dusk to eat flying insects.
• Fishing season begins in earnest with Rainbow and Green-Backed Cutthroat Trout filling lakes and rivers.
• Grayling can also be seen jumping out of the water to catch hatching mosquitoes.
• Average temperature is 54.6° F and it's our third wettest month at 2.39 inches of precipitation.
• Dawn Chorus: It's a most delightful avian chorus as males sing their finest to start the nesting cycle.
• Orioles arrive to build beautiful woven grass nests in colonies in deciduous trees.
• Male Western Tanagers arrive and are often seen traveling in pairs.
• Warblers, kingbirds, mockingbirds, catbirds, swifts delay their arrival until abundant flying insects are available.
• Spotted Towhees will sing from dawn to dusk in search of a mate.
• Green-tailed Towhees share the same habitat as Spotted Towhees.
• Eta Aquarids meteor shower is early-May. Click here for more information.
• International Migratory Bird Day is mid-May.