Calendar of Events

January

• Bald Ealge nesting and present on area lakes
• Great Horned owls nesting
• Peak waterfowl hunting

February

• Red maple blooms
• Woodcock nesting
• Elms bloom
• Wood Duck paired up and looking for nesting sites
• Red-tailed Hawks nesting

March

• Wild Things - Environmental Education Festival - Vidalia RV Park - 9:00am - 5:00pm - Free Admission
• Turkeys gobbling
• Eagles nesting
• Bass spawn, according to water temperature
• Redbud, crabapple, wild plum and dogwood are in bloom
• Wood Ducks are nesting
• Rattlesnakes emerge from their dens
• Woodcock migrate back north
• Black vultures nesting

April

• Wild Azalea, red buckeye, pawpaw bloom
• Wood Duck ducklings visible
• Bull frogs croaking & mating
• Turtles become active
• Doves begin nesting
• Shad running in river
• Turkeys are nesting
• Pelicans congregating on refuge
• Songbirds migrating north
• Shorebirds migrating north

May

• Mississippi Kites migrating
• Bluegill spawning
• Catfish spawning
• Heron rookeries start to become active
• Bluebird & Prothonotary Warbler nesting
• Alligators active
• Chuck-will's widow calling
• Black-necked stilts congregating on mud flats
• Songbird migration ends by mid-May

June

• National Trails Day - Take a Walk on the Wild Side - June 2nd 7:00-11:00am Magnolia Trail Parking Lot
• Queen Ann's lace bloom
• Maypops bloom
• Turkey with young visible
• Grey squirrels with young visible
• Bobwhite quail calling and nesting
• Roseate Spoonbills present
• Eaglets leaving the nest

July

• Purple martins leave nest
• Black-eyed Susans bloom
• Whitetail deer begin dropping fawns in late July
• Cormorants on area lakes
• Impoundments are flooded for shorebirds
• Shorebirds begin migrating South

August

• Whitetail deer with young visible
• Wood storks present on area lakes
• Alligators very visible
• Blue-wing Teal migrating
• Shorebirds migrating South
• Herons & Egrets feeding on area lakes and impoundments
• Fall (Southbound) songbird migration begins

September

• Shorebirds migrating
• Broad-winged hawks migrating
• Blue-winged Teal pass through
• Rattlesnakes begin to hibernate
• Herons & Egrets feeding on area lakes and impoundments
• Fall (Southbound) songbird migration begins

October

• Hickory nuts falling
• Start of peak Fall songbird migration
• Acorns falling
• Squirrels barking
• Wild persimmons ripening
• Fall colors showing
• Begin flooding waterfowl impoundments
• First appearances of Bald Eagle usually reported

November

• End of season for flowering plants
• Peak of Fall colors
• Expect killing frost
• Woodcock flights arrive from North
• Wintering Bald Eagles visible near impoundments
• Waterfowl numbers build

December

• Deer in rut
• Late acorns falling
• Great Horned Owls begin nesting
• Bald Eagle present on area lakes