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.