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
- Peak of squirrel mating season.
- Great Horned Owls are incubating their eggs.
- A few Sandhill Cranes can be seen migrating north in late February.
- Red Fox, raccoon, woodchuck, beaver, skunk, opossum and rabbit mating seasons.
- Bluebird and other nest boxes need to be cleaned out this month.
- Bald Eagles begin nesting behavior.
- Red-winged Blackbirds, Killdeer and Great Blue Herons return in southern areas.
- Look for early waterfowl migrants such as Bufflehead, Common Goldeneyes and Redheads as lakes thaw.
- Chipmunks reappear at feeders as temperatures rise.