Nature Happenings

• Great Backyard Bird Count, mid-month, birdcount.org
• February is National Bird Feeding Month
• Project FeederWatch continues, feederwatch.org
• Mating season begins for Barred, Great Horned, Eastern Screech-Owl and Northern Saw-whet Owls; listen for them calling.
• Great Horned Owls are nesting by the end of the month.
• Coyotes pair up and breed this month and into March.
• Black-capped Chickadees are courting, listen for them singing their "phoebe" call.
• Maple syrup sugaring season begins.
• Male Red-winged Blackbirds return. Females will return in March.
• Witch Hazel can bloom this month.
• Skunk Cabbage is the first flower of the year to bloom.
• As days lengthen, Tufted Titmice and cardinals begin to sing.
• Eastern Gray Squirrel mating season.
• Bluebird and other nest boxes need to be cleaned out this month.