Nature Happenings

• Great Backyard Bird Count, mid-month, birdcount.org
• February is National Bird Feeding Month
• Project FeederWatch continues, feederwatch.org
• Cardinals begin calling, signaling the onset of breeding season.
• Skunk Cabbage flowers are emerging, generating heat to melt the frozen ground surrounding them.
• Listen for the Black-capped Chickadee mating call.
• Eastern Grey Squirrel mating season.
• Maple tree sap is running, so Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are working the trees.
• Raccoon, woodchuck, beaver, skunk, opossum and rabbit mating seasons.
• Nest boxes need to be cleaned out this month.
• Male Red-winged Blackbirds, Killdeer and Great Blue Herons return.