Nature Happenings

• Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
• Coldest month of the year. Keep your bird bath open with a deicer.
• Give woodpeckers, nuthatches, bushtits and chickadees the calories they need by providing suet.
• Look for over-wintering Yellow-rumped Warblers at your water source and suet feeders.
• Large raptors begin nesting late in the month.
• The goldfinch population peaks; keep your feeders full.
• Downy Woodpeckers are drumming and drilling.
• Great Blue and other herons and egrets begin nesting.
• It's an excellent month to watch birds along the ditches and river ways.
• Bald Eagles are present in the local mountains.
• Aldo Leopold's (Father of Wildlife Conservation) birthday Jan. 11
• Quadrantid Meteor Shower early in the month. See up to 60 falling meteors per hour!