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.