Nature Happenings

• Project FeederWatch ends this month, feederwatch.org

• Common Loon and Barn Swallow migrations peak.

• Whip-poor-wills are returning from Central America.

• American White Pelicans, Yellow-rumped Warblers and kinglets (Ruby- and Golden-crowned) migrate through the area.

• Chipping Sparrows, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Double-crested Cormorants, Chimney Swifts and Tree and Barn Swallows return.

• Brown Creepers and Winter Wrens migrating.

• Dark-eyed Juncos, American Tree Sparrows leaving.

• Migratory Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers return.

• Bald Eagles, Canada Geese, Mallards incubating.

• Ring-necked Pheasants are displaying.

• For years, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and Baltimore Orioles have returned by the third week.

• Purple Martin sub-adults arrive.

• Canada Geese are nesting and their first young hatch.

• Lyrids meteor shower, late-April.

• Earth Day, April 22.