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