Nature Happenings: APRIL

• Project FeederWatch ends this month, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
• Baltimore Orioles arrive early this month. Be sure to have their nectar feeders ready.
• Prothonotary Warblers arrive early this month from their wintering grounds in Central and South America.
• Listen for the subtle "Pee-O-Wee" call of the Eastern Wood-Pewee upon its return.
• Whip-poor-wills arrive in the first half of the month.
• Chuck-will’s-widows start to arrive in the last week of the month
• Last of the Whooping Cranes depart Aransas NWR by the middle of the month.
• Free-tailed Bats return from Mexico.
• Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks arrive at inland breeding sites.
• South winds bring major waves of migrating birds such as southern-breeding warblers and vireos in the first half and more northerly species in the second half of the month.
• Painted Buntings begin to arrive late in the month.
• Lyrids meteor shower, late-April.
• Earth Day, April 22.