Nature Happenings

• Project FeederWatch continues, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw
• Christmas Bird Count is this month, birds.audubon.org/christmas-bird-count
• See if you can find our four members of the thrush family that reside here in the winter - the Hermit Thrush, Varied Thrush, American Robin and Western Bluebird.
• Be sure to install a bird bath heater so birds have a water source when the temperature dips below freezing.
• Bald Eagles arrive from the North to overwinter.
• Huge numbers of Snow Geese are in the Central Valley.
• Large numbers of Bald Eagles are in Northern California.
• Occasionally, erratic Pine Siskins begin showing up.
• Great Horned Owls are pairing up this month – listen for their "who" calls.
• Watch for late waterfowl migrants such as Northern Shovelers, mergansers, Ruddy Ducks and Common Goldeneyes.
• Fox and Gray Squirrels' mating seasons.
• Geminid Meteor Shower is mid-month.