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IF, AS the great poet T. S. Elliot said, "April is the cruelest month" then September is the kindest. Days are still long and leisurely, with cool mornings and evenings accented by hours of dappled sunlight and moon beams. The critters are on the move -- hummingbirds are taking their last gulps of nectar before heading south in a journey that can be hundreds or even thousands of miles.