Nature Happenings

 

  • Whip-poor-wills are returning from Central America.

 

  • American White Pelicans, Yellow-rumped Warblers and kinglets (Ruby- and Golden-crowned) migrate through the area.

 

  • Chipping Sparrows, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Double-crested Cormorants, Chimney Swifts and Tree and Barn Swallows return.

 

  • Brown Creepers and Winter Wrens migrating.

 

  • Dark-eyed Juncos, American Tree Sparrows leaving.

 

  • Migratory Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers return.

 

  • Bald Eagles, Canada Geese, Mallards incubating.

 

  • Ring-necked Pheasants are displaying.

 

  • For years, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and Baltimore Orioles have returned by the third week.

 

  • Purple Martin sub-adults arrive.

     

 

  • Lyrids meteor shower, late-April.

 

  • Earth Day, April 22.