Nature Happenings

  • Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
  • Most Warblers have gone south for the winter, look for stragglers as they migrate.
  • Open water is important if there's an early freeze. Put out heated bird baths for a winter water source.
  • Male Anna's Hummingbirds stay at our feeders throughout the winter, be sure to have your nectar fresh and unfrozen at first light.
  • Trumpeter Swans arrive.
  • In an irruptive year, Snowy Owls arrive.
  • Varied Thrush and Red-Breasted Sapsuckers travel down to lowland feeders.
  • Pine Siskin flocks may arrive through January - have Nyjer® (thistle) and sunflower chips ready.
  • Black Tail and Mule Deer go into rut.
  • Leonid meteor shower is mid-month.