Nature Happenings

• Great Backyard Bird Count, mid-month, www.birdcount.org
• Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
• February is National Bird Feeding Month
• Bluebirds begin nesting by the end of the month. Be sure to have their houses ready, and begin monitoring them by the middle of the month (incubation 14 days; fledging in 18 days).
• Ruby-throated Hummingbirds reach the Gulf Coast in late February.
• Early migrant warblers, including the Northern Parula, start to arrive along the Gulf Coast.
• Have houses ready for Purple Martins that will return by end of the month.
• Barred Owls and Eastern Screech Owls are courting.
• As days lengthen, Tufted Titmice and cardinals begin to sing.
• Sandhill Cranes can be seen migrating north in late February.
• Smith's Longspurs will be on their way back to the Arctic by the end of the month.
• American Robin spring migration begins in late February.
• Flocks of Cedar Waxwings can be seen feeding on berries.