Nature Happenings

• Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw

• Bald Eagles begin nesting this month with young ready to fly by late February.

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• Common Loons arrive from the north.

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• Asters continue to bloom, mostly during the first two weeks of November.

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• Feeders get busier as the month progresses.

• American Goldfinches arrive in large numbers.

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• Peak number of Whooping Cranes pass through the west of the region during middle of month.

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• Number and variety of wintering hummingbirds build on the Louisiana Coast.

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• Resident birds that may have left their home territory return for the winter.

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• Waterfowl migration peaks this month.

  

 

• Franklin's Gulls pass through in large numbers on their way to wintering grounds off the coast of Chile.

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• Leonid meteor shower is mid-month.

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