Nature Happenings
- Juncos and Sparrows become common at feeders.
- Nov. 1: Daylight Savings Time ends so "fall back"
- Nov. 14: Project Feeder Watch always starts on the 2nd Saturday and extends until April, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
- Nov. 30: Full Moon; Nov. 14: New Moon
- Nov. 17-18: Leonid meteor shower peaks.
- Continue switching feeders to high-fat, winter foods.
- Warblers have gone south for the winter.
- Find American Tree Sparrows, longspurs or Snow Buntings along the snow lined roads.
- Wooly Bear Caterpillars search for late blooming Asters, clovers and sunflowers.
- Trumpeter and Tundra Swans arrive in Snohomish, Skagit and Fraser valleys.
- In an irruptive year, Snowy Owls arrive.
- Put out suet and Bark Butter for energetic flocks of Bushtits
- Varied Thrush and Red-Breasted Sapsuckers travel down to lowland feeders.
- Pine Siskin flocks may arrive now through January - have Nyjer® (thistle) ready.
- Snow Geese are here.
- 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.
- Rufous Hummers have migrated South, Anna's Hummers stay all winter. Keep your hummingbird feeders clean, filled and thawed.