Nature Happenings

• Bald Eagles and Rough-legged Hawks begin arriving mid-month.

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• Turkey Vultures, Ospreys and Violet-green and Barn Swallows depart.

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• Snow Geese, Canvasback Ducks and Dunlins arrive.

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• Little Brown Bat in hibernaculum for winter

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• Clean out and repair nest boxes; put up roosting boxes.

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• Fall storms push juncos to lower elevation feeding stations - put out millet.

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• Anna's Hummingbirds increase at feeders through the western lowlands of Oregon, Washington and southern BC.

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• Snow Geese arrive in Fraser Valley and Skagit Flats.

 

• The last Rufous Hummingbirds leave for the winter. A few Anna's Hummingbirds will overwinter.

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• Evening Grosbeak flocks become common at oil sunflower seed feeders.

• Varied Thrush begin to be seen in yards more often.

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• Some Clark's Nutcrackers move down in elevation and become more common around bird feeders.

• Waterfowl migration peaks.

• Orionids meteor shower is late-October.

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