Nature Happenings
- November Nature / Fun Happenings
- November is Native American Heritage, Aviation History, Manatee Awareness, Gratitude, National Diabetes, Peanut Butter Lovers , Runaway Prevention, Lung Cancer and National Entrepreneurship Month
- Nov. 1: New Moon, Nov. 9: First Quarter Moon,
- Nov. 15: Full Moon, Nov. 22: Las Quarter Moon
- Nov. 3-9: Give Wildlife a Break! And National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week
- Nov. 10-16: World Kindness Week
- Nov 17-23: National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
- Nov. 17-18: Leonid meteor shower
- Nov. 18-22: American Education Week
- Nov. 24-30: National Family Week
- Nov. 1: All Saints Day and Cinnamon Day
- Nov. 1: Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April. www.feederwatch.org
- Nov. 2. All Souls Day and World Chili Day
- Nov. 3: Daylight Savings Time Ends - “Fall Back”
- Nov. 4: National Candy
- Nov. 5: MAH’s Birthday and Election Day
- Nov. 6. National Nachos Day
- Nov. 7: Stout Day
- Nov. 9: World Adoption Day
- Nov. 10 : Marine Corps Birthday
- Nov. 11: Armistice Day / Veterans Day
- Nov. 13: World Kindness Day and Sandwich Day
- Nov. 14: World Diabetes Day
- Nov. 15: America Recycles Day
- Nov. 18: National Apple Cider and Mickey Mouse Day
- Nov. 21: Great American Smokeout
- Nov. 22: WBU Canton’s 13th Birthday
- Nov. 22: Humane Society Day
- Nov. 28: Thanksgiving Day
- Nov. 29: National Native American Heritage Day
- Nov. 30: Small Business Saturday
- Common Loons and Tundra Swans begin to appear.
- Numbers swell for wintering owls such as Saw-whet, Long-eared and Short-eared Owls.
- Eastern Monarch Butterflies reach their central Mexican overwintering sites starting in November.
- Peak number of Sandhill Cranes at Michigan sanctuaries (Phyllis Haenhle and Baker) by the end of the month.
- Beavers are very active in the evenings while caching a winter supply of food.
- Waterfowl migration peaks this month.
- Open water is important if there’s an early freeze. Put out heated bird baths for a winter water source.
- Bald Eagle migration peaks.