Nature Happenings - May

• Moving water is a real magnet for some non-seed eating migrants
  
  
• Provide fruit like orange halves and apples for Tanagers, Orioles, and Grosbeaks
  
  
• Listen for unusual bird calls as a clue to find different birds visiting your backyard
  
  
• Orioles and grosbeaks are nesting.
  
  
• House Finches young are fledging. 
  
  
• Watch for Grosbeaks and Tanagers migrating through
  
  
• Calliope Hummingbirds arrive in the high mountains.
  
  
• Mockingbirds singing fades as pairs form.
  
  
• Eta Aquarid meteor shower is in early May.
  
  
• International Migratory Bird Day is May 11.
  
  

• Black-chinned Hummingbirds are nesting. 

• Put out mealworms for nesting birds. 

• June 21 Full moon - Strawberry Moon.