Nature Happenings

  • Project FeederWatch ends this month, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
  • Orioles return and begin nesting in southern part of region. Get their feeders ready.
  • Whip-poor-wills arrive in the first half of the month.
  • Wintering sparrows begin to head north; the White-throated are usually the last to go.
  • Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks arrive at inland breeding sites.
  • Painted Buntings begin to arrive late in the month.
  • Spring migration brings the American Redstart, Ovenbird, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore and Orchard Oriole, Red-eyed Vireo early in the month and the Yellow Warbler, Rose-breasted and Blue Grosbeak later.
  • Mature male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks arrive about three days before the females. First year males usually arrive last.
  • Indigo Buntings arrive.
  • Lyrids meteor shower, late-April.
  • Earth Day, April 22.