- Look for wild blackberries, raspberries, mulberries, and huckleberries. They are delicious eaten fresh or in jellies and desserts.
- Watch hummingbirds to find their nests. Look closely—the nests are only an inch or two across and are very well camouflaged.
- Look for noctilucent clouds. They are rare, thin, high-altitude clouds that glow blue or silver after sunset and before sunrise in the summer.
- Hooded seals are gathering in herds for their molting season.
- It’s time to disk or spray food plots to kill weeds before planting in August.
- Bluegills are spawning in 65°-80°F water.
- Watch dragonflies dipping into water to lay their eggs.
- July is the best time to view brown bears catching sockeye salmon in the Brooks River at Brooks Camp, Katmai National Park, Alaska.
- Great rhododendron, scarlet beebalm, and tall meadow-rue are blooming at Cranberry Glades, West Virginia. Also look for nesting warblers, including Canada, Magnolia, and Mourning Warblers.
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