Nature Happenings

  • Great Backyard Bird Count, mid-month, www.birdsource.org/gbbc
  • Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
  • February is National Bird Feeding Month.
  • Put up bluebird boxes for Mountain and Western Bluebirds that are looking for suitable nest sites.
  • Sandhill Cranes are leaving the Bosque del Apache and heading north.
  • Watch for Evening Grosbeaks eating black oil sunflower seeds at tray feeders.
  • Watch for Ruby-crowned Kinglets and flickers at suet feeders.
  • American Goldfinches begin to molt into their brighter plumage.
  • Look for heavy feeder activity as birds molt, fatten up for migration, sing/defend territory and build nests.
  • Scrub-Jays begin to nest late in the month.
  • Swallows arrive.
  • Bushtits begin to pair off and flocks thin out.
  • Great Blue Heron nesting continues.
  • Bald Eagles present in the local mountains.