Nature Happenings

• Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
• Christmas Bird Count is this month, birds.audubon.org/christmas-bird-count
• Robins come in flocks to bird baths.
• Watch for an increasing number of juncos on the ground beneath your seed feeders.
• Provide a blend with enough white millet to satisfy the increase in ground feeding birds like towhees and juncos.
• Duck and geese numbers peak throughout the state.
• Watch for flocks of Cedar Waxwings.
• Feeder activity increases as weather cools and rains arrive.
• Surf Scoter flocks form behind surf zone. Keep scopes handy to look for Black and White-winged Scoters.
• Rafts of Western Grebes form behind surf zone. You'll need scopes to look for Clark’s Grebes.
• Geminid Meteor Shower is mid-month.