Nature Happenings

• Great Backyard Bird Count, mid-month, www.birdsource.org/gbbc

• Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw

• February is National Bird Feeding Month

• Ruby-throated Hummingbirds reach the Gulf Coast in late February.

• Early migrant warblers, including the Northern Parula, start to arrive along the Gulf Coast.

• Have houses ready for Purple Martins that will return by end of the month.

• Be sure to have nesting boxes ready for bluebirds as they select their nesting territories this month.

• Barred Owls and Eastern Screech Owls are courting.

• As days lengthen, Tufted Titmice and cardinals begin to sing.

• Sandhill Cranes can be seen migrating north in late February.

• Smith's Longspurs will be on their way back to the Arctic by the end of the month.

• American Robin spring migration begins in late February.

• Flocks of Cedar Waxwings can be seen feeding on berries.

 Purple Martin

 Eastern Bluebird uses a bluebird house!

Barred Owl                                                                                                Eastern Screech Owl

 Tufted Titmouse singing

 Cardinal singing

 Flock of Cedar Waxwings