Nature Happenings

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

• Warblers have gone south for the winter.

• Find American Tree Sparrows, longspurs or Snow Buntings along the snow lined roads.

• Orange-crowned Warblers, the last of the departing migratory birds, head south.

• Trumpeter Swans arrive.

• In an irruptive year, Snowy Owls arrive.

• Varied Thrush and Red-Breasted Sapsuckers travel down to lowland feeders.

• Pine Siskin flocks may arrive through January - have Nyjer® (thistle) ready.

• Trumpeter and Tundra Swans arrive in Snohomish, Skagit and Fraser valleys.

• Black Tail and Mule Deer go into rut.

• Open water is important if there's an early freeze. Put out heated bird baths for a winter water source.

• Leonid meteor shower is mid-month.