Nature Happenings

  • Project FeederWatch ends this month, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw

  • Baltimore Orioles arrive early this month. Be sure to have their nectar feeders ready.

    Prothonotary Warblers arrive early this month from their wintering grounds in Central and South America.

  • Listen for the subtle "Pee-O-Wee" call of the Eastern Wood-Pewee upon its return.

  • Whip-poor-wills arrive in the first half of the month.

  • Chuck-will’s-widows start to arrive in the last week of the month

  • Last of the Whooping Cranes depart Aransas NWR by the middle of the month.

  • Free-tailed Bats return from Mexico.

  • Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks arrive at inland breeding sites.

  • South winds bring major waves of migrating birds such as southern-breeding warblers and vireos in the first half and more northerly species in the second half of the month.

  • Painted Buntings begin to arrive late in the month.

  • Lyrids meteor shower, late-April.

  • Earth Day, April 22.

 Baltimore Oriole       Prothonotary Warbler

 Eastern Wood-Pewee

 Whip-poor-will

 Chuck-will's-widow

 

 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

 Painted Bunting