Nature Happenings

• Great Backyard Bird Count, mid-month, birdcount.org

• February is National Bird Feeding Month

• Project FeederWatch continues, feederwatch.org

• Peak of squirrel mating season.

• Great Horned Owls are incubating their eggs.

• A few Sandhill Cranes can be seen migrating north in late February.

• Red Fox, raccoon, woodchuck, beaver, skunk, opossum and rabbit mating seasons.

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

• Bald Eagles begin nesting behavior.

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

• Look for early waterfowl migrants such as Bufflehead, Common Goldeneyes and Redheads as lakes thaw.

• Chipmunks reappear at feeders as temperatures rise.