Nature Happenings

  • Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
  • Add a heater to your bird bath as temperatures begin to dip below freezing.
  • Festival of the cranes at Bosque del Apache in New Mexico
  • Birds begin to flock.
  • Bushtits come in large groups to suet feeders.
  • Fall migration "ends." Present birds will remain in the area for winter.
  • First Glacous-winged Gulls of winter arrive along the coast.
  • Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned, Townsends and Black-throated Gray Warblers present throughout the region; keep your mealworm feeders full.
  • Eastern vagrants appear during November; some will winter.
  • Early appearances of Red-breasted Nuthatches happen along the coast.
  • Goldfinch numbers increasing at feeders as colder weather drives them to coastal areas.
  • Leonid meteor shower is mid-month.