• Shad and herring migrate upstream to spawn
• Osprey return to nest on the Chesapeake Bay
• Spring peepers calling from wet woods

• American black ducks are nesting
• Warbler migrations begin
• Striped bass are spawning

-- Earth Day
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• Horseshoe crab spawning coincides with shorebird migration
• Terrapins are breeding

May is Wetlands Month!
http://www.iwla.org/sos/awm

May 8, 2005
International Migratory Bird Day
http://birds.fws.gov/imbd.html

• June 4-11, 2003 is National Fishing and Boating Week - http://www.nationalfishingandboatingweek.org
• Bay grasses appear in the Chesapeake Bay and rivers

• Demand for blue crabs is high now!
• Sea nettles make their way up the Chesapeake Bay

• Bats fill nightime skies, each consuming hundreds of insects an hour
• Cownose rays forage the Chesapeake Bay bottom for mollusks and other food

• Canada geese begin to arrive
• Monarch butterflies migrate south

• Leaves are changing to their autumn colors

October -- National Wildlife Refuge Week

• Ducks, geese and swans continue to arrive on Chesapeake Bay
• Softshell clams are spawning

• Common and red-throatred loons arrive to winter on the Chesapeake
• Oyster harvesting heralds the Holiday Season