Summer, the season of creation, growth, and spending as much time as possible outside, is upon us! For the third year, we are pleased to present the Brush with Nature featured artists: Claire Baldwin Deena Ball Jessica Barzell M.J. Benson Michael Boardman Michael Brown …
News & Notes
Exploring Creek Critters in Kindergarten: Caddisflies, Mayflies and Stoneflies, OH MY!
Late in May my class of seven kindergarteners at the Children’s House Montessori School set out to explore the stream at our satellite campus in Rockport. Our small school is located in downtown Camden but since fall 2020, we have spent each autumn and late spring in a 100% outdoor based setting …
Join us for Pajama Story Time this July!
A book at bedtime in the outdoors—what could be better on a summer evening? Come join us for a new Pajama Story Time series in our outdoor classroom at Gilsland Farm. Maine artists/authors will join us on three Thursday evenings in July, from 5:30 - 7 pm, to play, read, and sign their books. Each …
Maine Audubon in Augusta: Important Final Updates
The Maine Legislature is nearing the end of an active and productive session. Though today is the last day on its formal calendar, there is still a lot of work to do and the Maine Audubon team expects that the Legislature will meet at least through the end of the week. Until then, we want to keep …
WIN! Gov. Mills Signs into law a bill that will help protect loons from lead poisoning
One of Maine's most iconic wildlife species will benefit from a new law signed this week by Governor Mills that phases out the use and sale of small-sized painted lead fishing tackle. Common Loons can accidentally ingest lost or discarded lead tackle when it sinks to the bottom, causing illness and …
LearningWorks: A Year of Highlights!
As the school year comes to a close, here are some highlights from our partnership with LearningWorks, an after school academic enrichment program for elementary school students. Last fall, as an environmental educator for Maine Audubon, I began visiting students at Portland’s Reiche Community …
Poets have power to connect us to Juneteenth, Borestone, and the land
This Juneteenth, we’re thinking about words. We know how much power even one small word has. No one understands that better than a poet. A few years ago, we hosted a wonderful event in which five poets read works they had written in response to paintings by artist David Driskell. One of those …
Join Maine Audubon’s 40th annual loon count on July 15
Early Saturday morning in mid July, on the shores of hundreds of Maine lakes, people are getting coffee and tea, studying maps, prepping their boats, dusting off binoculars, and meeting up with neighbors who they may only see this one time each year: They are getting ready for the Annual Loon …
A Snapping Turtle Story: Good luck, Muddy!
In September 2022, a nest full of baby Snapping Turtles hatched here at Maine Audubon’s Gilsland Farm Audubon Center in Falmouth, Maine. We kept one of them, the biggest and the muddiest, to spend the winter in our Discovery Room, so it could teach us all about the early life of these ancient …