Nature Happenings

• Great Backyard Bird Count, mid-month, birdcount.org
• February is National Bird Feeding Month
• Project FeederWatch continues, feederwatch.org
• Peak of squirrel mating season.
• Great Horned Owls are incubating their eggs.
• A few Sandhill Cranes can be seen migrating north in late February.
• Red Fox, raccoon, woodchuck, beaver, skunk, opossum and rabbit mating seasons.
• Bluebird and other nest boxes need to be cleaned out this month.
• Bald Eagles begin nesting behavior.
• Red-winged Blackbirds, Killdeer and Great Blue Herons return in southern areas.
• Look for early waterfowl migrants such as Bufflehead, Common Goldeneyes and Redheads as lakes thaw.
• Chipmunks reappear at feeders as temperatures rise.