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!

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• Look for Eastern Bluebirds.

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• Bluebird and other nesting boxes need to be cleaned out this month.

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• Eastern Meadowlarks return from their winter habitats in late February.

• Red-winged Blackbirds, Killdeer and Great Blue Herons return.

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• Killdeer are members of the plover family and are known for their "distraction display," pretending to have a broken wing to divert predators from its ground nest

• Watch for Sandhill Cranes migrating north in late February.

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• Grackles return north.

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• Bald Eagles begin their nesting behaviors.

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• Chipmunks reappear at feeders as temperatures rise.

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