Nature Happenings

• Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
• Coldest month of the year. Mix Winter Blend to your regular seed to help them stay warm during long cold nights.
• Give woodpeckers, nuthatches, bushtits and chickadees the calories they need by providing suet.
• Look for over-wintering Yellow-rumped Warblers at your water source and suet feeders.
• Large raptors begin nesting late in the month.
• The goldfinch population peaks; keep your feeders full.
• Downy Woodpeckers are drumming and drilling.
• First Anna's Hummingbirds fledge; keep feeders full and clean. 
• Hummingbirds continue nesting well into July.
• Great Blue and other herons and egrets begin nesting.
• It's an excellent month to watch birds along the coast and in coastal estuaries.
• Adult Heerman's Gulls leave for Mexico (reverse migration).
• Morro Bay Birding Festival
• Bald Eagles are present in the local mountains and nesting in Ramona's open fields.
• Aldo Leopold's (Father of Wildlife Conservation) birthday Jan. 11
• Quadrantid Meteor Shower early in the month. See up to 60 falling meteors per hour!