Nature Happenings

  • Project FeederWatch ends this month, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
  • Common Loon and Barn Swallow migrations peak.
  • Whip-poor-wills are returning from Central America.
  • American White Pelicans, Yellow-rumped Warblers and kinglets (Ruby- and Golden-crowned) migrate through the area.
  • Chipping Sparrows, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Double-crested Cormorants, Chimney Swifts and Tree and Barn Swallows return.
  • Brown Creepers and Winter Wrens migrating.
  • Dark-eyed Juncos, American Tree Sparrows leaving.
  • Migratory Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers return.
  • Bald Eagles, Canada Geese, Mallards incubating.
  • Ring-necked Pheasants are displaying.
  • For years, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and Baltimore Orioles have returned by the third week.
  • Purple Martin sub-adults arrive.
  • Canada Geese are nesting and their first young hatch.
  • Lyrids meteor shower, late-April.
  • Earth Day, April 22.