Nature Happenings

• Cedar Waxwings arrive.

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• Look for scarce Rufous Hummingbirds to arrive throughout the region.

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• Wintering sparrows, towhees and juncos arrive late in the month - they all love millet in a ground feeder.

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• It's a good time to install bluebird winter roost boxes.

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• American Goldfinches start to return this month (in the south of the region).

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• First Sprague's Pipits and longspurs arrive for the winter.

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• Monarch migration reaches its peak late in month, sometimes in uncountable numbers.

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• Sandhill Cranes arrive in small flocks late in the month.

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• Waterfowl migration continues to build; lots of geese can be seen passing over at the end of the month.

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• Bald Eagle nest building and maintenance begins.

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• Great Horned Owl males begin hooting in nesting territory.

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• Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers arrive.

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• Sedge Wrens arrive in mid-October.

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• Peak fall migration for American Robins.

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• Orionids meteor shower is late-October.

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