Nature Happenings

• Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
• Warblers have gone south for the winter.
• Find American Tree Sparrows, longspurs or Snow Buntings along the snow lined roads.
• Orange-crowned Warblers, the last of the departing migratory birds, head south.
• Trumpeter Swans arrive.
• In an irruptive year, Snowy Owls arrive.
• Varied Thrush and Red-Breasted Sapsuckers travel down to lowland feeders.
• Pine Siskin flocks may arrive through January - have Nyjer® (thistle) ready.
• Trumpeter and Tundra Swans arrive in Snohomish, Skagit and Fraser valleys.
• Black Tail and Mule Deer go into rut.
• Open water is important if there's an early freeze. Put out heated bird baths for a winter water source.
• Leonid meteor shower is mid-month.