Nature Happenings

• Great Backyard Bird Count, mid-month, birdcount.org
• February is National Bird Feeding Month
• Project FeederWatch continues, feederwatch.org
• Look for Eastern Bluebirds.
• Bluebird and other nesting boxes need to be cleaned out this month.
• Eastern Meadowlarks return from their winter habitats in late February.
• Red-winged Blackbirds, Killdeer and Great Blue Herons return.
• Kildeer are members of the plover family and are known for their "distraction display," pretending to have a broken wing to divert predators from its ground nest.
• Watch for Sandhill Cranes migrating north in late February.
• Grackles return north.
• Bald Eagles begin their nesting behaviors.
• Chipmunks reappear at feeders as temperatures rise.