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.