November Nature Happenings

• Leonid meteor shower is mid-month.
• Harrier, Rough-legged and Feruginous hawks have arrived in the deserts and grasslands.
• Festival of the cranes at Bosque del Apache in New Mexico
• Birds begin to flock.
• Keep your hummingbird feeders filled and clean for our non-migratory hummingbirds
• Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April. Sign up at Project Feeder Watch
• Fall migration "ends." Birds present now, will remain in the area for winter.
• Cactus Wrens continue building nesting roosts to cozy up for winter. Eastern vagrants appear during November; some will winter.
• Desert broom release their puffy white seed into the air.
• Goldfinch numbers increasing at feeders as night temperatures become chilly and natural food sources deplete