Nature Happenings
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Project FeederWatch ends this month, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
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Common Loon and Barn Swallow migrations peak.
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Whip-poor-wills are returning from Central America.
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American White Pelicans, Yellow-rumped Warblers and kinglets (Ruby- and Golden-crowned) migrate through the area.
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Chipping Sparrows, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Double-crested Cormorants, Chimney Swifts and Tree and Barn Swallows return.
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Brown Creepers and Winter Wrens migrating.
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Dark-eyed Juncos, American Tree Sparrows leaving.
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Migratory Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers return.
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Bald Eagles, Canada Geese, Mallards incubating.
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Ring-necked Pheasants are displaying.
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For years, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and Baltimore Orioles have returned by the third week.
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Purple Martin sub-adults arrive.
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Canada Geese are nesting and their first young hatch.
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Lyrids meteor shower, late-April.
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Earth Day, April 22.
Common Loon
Barn Swallow
Whip-poor-will
American White Pelican
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Chipping Sparrow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Double-crested Comorant
Chimney Swift
Tree Swallow
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Mallards
Ring-necked Pheasant