Nature Happenings - January

• Coldest month of the year. Keep your bird bath open with a deicer.

• Give woodpeckers, desert cardinals, finches, sparrows, blackbirds, and thrashers the calories they need by providing suet.

• Look for over-wintering Yellow-rumped Warblers at your water source and suet feeders.

• Large raptors begin nesting late in the month.

• The goldfinch population peaks; keep your feeders full.

• Great Blue and other herons and egrets begin nesting.

• Aldo Leopold's (Father of Wildlife Conservation) birthday Jan. 11

• Quadrantids Meteor Showers early in the month. See up to 60 falling meteors per hour!

• National Bird Day January 5

• New Mexico Statehood Anniversary - January 6, 1912

• Project FeederWatch continues, feederwatch.org
• National Squirrel Day January 21