🌼Project FeederWatch ends this month, April 30, feederwatch.org 🌼Orioles return and begin nesting in southern part of region. Get their feeders ready. 🌼Whip-poor-wills arrive in the first half of the month. 🌼Wintering sparrows begin to head north; the White-throated are usually the last to go. 🌼Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks arrive at inland breeding sites. 🌼Painted Buntings begin to arrive late in the month. 🌼Spring migration brings the American Redstart, Ovenbird, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore and Orchard Oriole, Red-eyed Vireo early in the month and the Yellow Warbler, Rose-breasted and Blue Grosbeak later. 🌼Mature male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks arrive about three days before the females. First year males usually arrive last. 🌼Indigo Buntings arrive. 🌼Lyrids meteor shower, late-April. 🌼Earth Day, April 22.
