Nature Happenings

• Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
• Feeders get busier as the month progresses.
• American Goldfinches begin to arrive in large numbers, not usually descending to feeders until the sweetgum seed supply is exhausted (usually in December or January).
• Chipping Sparrows arrive in the beginning of the month and will be looking for White Millet at Feeders.  Now is a good time to change over to our No-Mess LM Blend.
• Number and variety of wintering hummingbirds begins to build on Coast.
• Resident birds that may have left their home territory return for the winter.
• Waterfowl migration peaks this month.
• Common Loons and Bald Eagles arrive from the north.
• Northern Gannets arrive along the SE coast.
• Fall begins for most migratory waterfowl.
• The fall migratory population of the Sandhill Crane peaks in mid-November.
• Leonid meteor shower is mid-month.