Nature Happenings

• Snow Geese start returning by the end of this month.

• Dark-eyed Juncos return from their northern breeding grounds early this month.

• Indigo Buntings are gone by the end of this month.

• Keep your hummingbird feeders filled and clean until you have not seen a hummingbird for two weeks.

• This is the month to install and repair nest boxes for use next year.

• Waterfowl migration continues to build.

• American Goldfinches start to return late this month (in the south of the region).

• Free-tailed Bats migrate to Mexico.

• First Sprague's Pipits and longspurs arrive for the winter.

• Look for scarce Rufous Hummingbirds to arrive throughout the region.

• Wintering sparrows, towhees and juncos arrive. They all love millet in a ground feeder.

• Monarch Butterfly migration reaches its peak late in month, sometimes in uncountable numbers.

• Sandhill Cranes arrive in huge flocks late in the month with many staging in the western half of the region.

• Orionids meteor shower is late-October.

 Dark-eyed Junco   American Goldfinch 

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