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.