Nature Happenings

• Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw

• Hummingbirds arrive. Be sure to have their feeders ready. 

• Goldfinches begin to molt into their brilliant yellow plumage.

• 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). 

• Cardinals, Carolina Chickadees, Crows and Blue Jays begin nesting. 

• Screech Owls are sitting on their eggs.

• The Sandhill Crane spring migratory population peaks during the first or second week of the month.

• Peak of Eastern Screech-Owl nesting.

• Osprey begin nesting.

• Barn Swallows arrive.

• Tufted Titmice begin nesting at the end of the month.

Northern Cardinal                                                               Carolina Chickadee (w/nesting material)                        Blue Jay & fledglings