Nature Happenings

• Project FeederWatch ends this month, feederwatch.org
• Broad-tailed and Black-chinned Hummingbirds arrive. Be sure to have their feeders ready.
• Hooded Orioles, if not here in March, arrive in April. Bullocks and Scott's Orioles begin to arrive. Place your orange-colored nectar feeder out in the open to entice flying orioles to your yard.
• American and Lesser Goldfinch typically migrate to the mountains.
• First Swainson's Thrushes migrate through the area at night.
• Tree Swallows begin nesting late in the month.
• Shorebirds pass through, showing their breeding plumage.
• Lyrids meteor shower, late-April.
• Earth Day, April 22.