Nature Happenings

• Keep your hummingbird feeders filled and clean until you have not seen a hummingbird for at least two weeks.
• Peak of southward migration. Birds heading south include: White-crowned Sparrows, warblers, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Green-tailed Towhees, Song Sparrows and Lincoln and Chipping Sparrows.
• Watch for Sandhill Cranes heading toward the Bosque del Apache in New Mexico where they overwinter, or flying overhead in our area.
• Geese and ducks begin arriving throughout the region.
• Yellow-Rumped Warblers are returning.
• Peak of fall warbler migration
• Orionids meteor shower is late-October.
• 10/26 - Full moon - Hunter's Moon