Nature Happenings
- Project FeederWatch ends this month, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
- Black-chinned Hummingbirds arrive. Be sure to have their feeders ready.
- Hooded, Bullocks and Scott's Orioles arrive. Place your orange-colored nectar feeder out in the open to entice flying orioles to your yard.
- Orioles eat nectar, grape jelly and mealworms.
- Put out nesting materials (pieces of yarn or string) in suet cages for birds.
- Both American and Lesser Goldfinch are migrating to the mountains.
- First Swainson's Thrushes migrate through the area at night.
- Tree Swallows begin nesting late in month.
- Shorebirds pass through, showing their breeding plumage.
- Lyrids meteor shower, late-April.
- Earth Day, April 22.