Nature Happenings - October

• Keep your hummingbird feeders filled and clean until you have not seen a hummingbird for two weeks.
  
  
• Watch for birds migrating, including: White-crowned Sparrows, warblers, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Green-tailed Towhees, Song Sparrows and Lincoln and Chipping Sparrows.
  
  
• Watch for Sandhill Cranes heading south overhead. They can usually be heard before they're seen.
  
  
• Geese and ducks begin arriving throughout the region.
  
  
• Peak of fall warbler migration.
  
  
• First Northern Flickers arrive.
  
  
• Sandhill Cranes arrive in Bosque del Apache where they overwinter
• Orionids meteor shower is late-October.