Nature Happenings

• Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
• 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.