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.