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.