Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 69. Sunrise is 5:39 and sunset is 8:03, for 14 hours, 24 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1945, the German Instrument of Surrender signed at Berlin-Karlshorst comes into effect.
Midwest migration is underway:
More than 300 bird species, from warblers to waterfowl, songbirds to raptors, migrate from Mexico, Central and South America, flying north to the U.S. and Canada to breed and nest for the warmer months each spring. Then, as the leaves begin to turn and drop for autumn, these same travelers head back south to warmer climates for the winter.
During these long journeys, many migrating birds follow a path in the sky known as the Mississippi Flyway, which roughly follows the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers. As birds follow the Flyway, they need to find places where they can rest, eat and shelter, seeking out rivers, wetlands, prairies, forests and other Midwest habitats to take their sanctuary.
See Midwest Migratory Birds (‘Millions of migratory birds are using TNC sites to rest and refuel as they migrate through the Midwest’), The Nature Conservancy, April 23, 2025.
As it’s meant to do: