Nature Happenings
- Migration numbers swell for Yellow-rumped Warblers, Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens and kinglets.
- Migrating Hermit, Swainson’s and Gray-cheeked Thrushes can be seen feeding on wild grapes, crab apples, and other fall fruits.
- Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have mostly left the area. You may still see an occasional straggler.
- First migrating owls, including the Saw-whet and Short-eared Owls, appear.
- Chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers and jays are caching seeds and nuts for the winter.
- This is the month to install and repair nest boxes for use next year.
- Pine Siskin return early this month and in late-September.
- Most Wood Ducks migrate south this month. A few stay over winter.
- Juncos and White-throated Sparrows become common at feeders.
- Raptor migration peaks.
- Orionids meteor shower is late-October.
Pine Siskin