Yep on the squirrels starting on the hickory nuts. About 8 to 10 days away here. Scouted a bit today. Just sampling a couple here and there. It goes from that to feeding frenzy on them in a matter of a few days. Late August walnuts, early September pecans, acorns anytime after that.
That’s when fall is beginning to me.

Potato harvest around the first of September. Leaves start turning about the same time.

Huckleberry ready to pick

In our area a very early sign that comes before leaves, berries etc. is the almost daily heavy dews that start the last half of August. Days warm up but nights begin to cool more as with the rotation and the longer nights.

Bryce

yotetrapper30 I'm close to where you used to live. A flock of tree swallows stopped by yesterday to visit the barn swallows on their way south. It's started. Can't wait.

Cold at night get into the 40s.

90 plus here next 2 weeks . Just because Walmart put out thanksgiving decorations don't make it fall !!! I guess winter starts September first when they put out the Christmas trees.

Red maples turning

No rain will mess up fall signs

Fall is no where in sight here. 97 this weekend with 87% humidity.

When we can do these two things, fall is right around the corner. Cut silage, goose fields, labor day, 90 degree days laying in a layout blind, that means fall is coming!!

Yard grass gets short and thick.
Orbed weavers on the porch.
Kudzu blooms.

Fall is here when my allergies go away.

Fairs firing up and the racetracks are shutting down, then its time to switch gears.

Steelhead in the cricks

Iron weed, Joe Pye weed and Goldenrod.

When the sumac bushes start turning, red and also the first muskrat house of the fall.

August 30 first hunting seasons open but for real fall it is the first big rain storm. We get little to no rain in July,August and some to all of September. The later in the year the storm happens the more wind we get and the worse it is. The latest I remember was middle of October and it seems the whole country was on fire because the wind was blowing over power lines before the rain arrived.

Bluejays,crckets,katydids,and the air changes.

Seeing birds flock up, goldenrod blooming hearing geese and cranes at dusk