🍂November Nature News🍂 

🍁 Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April, https://feederwatch.org/
🍁 Feeders get busier as the month progresses.
🍁 Open water is important if there's an early freeze. Put out heated bird baths for a winter water source.
🍁 American Goldfinches arrive in large numbers. Keep those finch feeders filled!
🍁 Number and variety of wintering hummingbirds begins to build on Coast.
🍁 Resident birds that may have left their home territory return for the winter.
🍁 Waterfowl migration peaks this month.
🍁 Franklin's Gulls pass through in large numbers on their way to wintering grounds of the coast of Chile.
🍁 Common Loons and Bald Eagles arrive from the north.
🍁 Northern Gannets arrive along the SE coast.
🍁 Fall begins for most migratory waterfowl.
🍁 The fall migratory population of the Sandhill Crane peaks in mid-November.
🍁 Leonid meteor shower is mid-month.

❄️December Nature News❄️

🎄Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
🎄Christmas Bird Count is this month, birds.audubon.org/christmas-bird-count
🎄Great Horned Owls are pairing up this month – listen for their "who" calls.
🎄This is a great time to teach chickadees and titmice to feed from your hand.
🎄Watch for late waterfowl migrants such as Northern Shovelers, mergansers, Ruddy Ducks and Common Goldeneyes.
🎄Tundra Swans arrive.
🎄Purple Finches can be seen at feeders.
🎄Smith's Longspurs arrive for their brief visit to the north-central part of our region.
🎄Red-tailed Hawks and kestrels have arrived for winter.
🎄Geminid Meteor Shower is mid-month.