Check out these things happening this month!

Spooky season is upon us! Get ready for fall with all the great things happening! - Happy Birdwatching!

• Cedar Waxwings arrive. 

• Look for scarce Rufous Hummingbirds to arrive throughout the region. Humming Bird feeders need to be clean and ready for them!

• Wintering sparrows, towhees and juncos arrive late in the month. They love millet! Try our No-mess, No-waste, Low millet premium seed.

• It's a good time to install bluebird winter roost boxes. 

• American Goldfinches start to return this month (in the south of the region).

• First Sprague's Pipits and longspurs arrive for the winter.

• Monarch migration reaches its peak late in month, sometimes in uncountable numbers.

• Sandhill Cranes arrive in small flocks late in the month.

• Waterfowl migration continues to build; lots of geese can be seen passing over at the end of the month.

• Bald Eagle nest building and maintenance begins.

• Great Horned Owl males begin hooting in nesting territory.

• Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers arrive.

• Sedge Wrens arrive in mid-October.

• Peak fall migration for American Robins.

• Orionids meteor shower is late-October.