Many thanks to the hundreds of you who joined last week's webinar Maine Climate Council: Everything You Need To Know. The event was a great success, and listeners heard from members of each of the Climate Council working groups. Recordings of the main event and three of the breakout sessions are …
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Family Fun Connections: Exploring Color
Nature is colorful year-round, if you know where and how to look. But there's something about the deepening shades of green in late spring, plus the pops of color from each new blooming tree, flower, or shrub, that make this a particularly nice time to explore color. Let's dig …
Virtual Rangeley Birding Festival! Free – June 4 and 5
The organizers of the second annual Rangeley Birding Festival were disappointed to have to cancel the in-person event this year, but haven't given up in our quest to celebrate the birds of western Maine. So, we're going virtual! On the mornings of Thursday and Friday, June 4 and 5, Maine Audubon …
Elementary Connections: Decomposers
How are nutrients recycled in nature? What plants, animals, and organisms help with this process? Where can we observe this in our own yards and neighborhoods? Last summer, a huge, old tree fell in the woods at Gilsland Farm. No one was quite sure what caused it to happen right …
Connections: Exploring a Pond, Part 1
Typically, our spring program for middle schoolers at the Fields Pond Audubon Center involves some type of pond exploration. Exploring a pond is a great way to learn about how an ecosystem works. Predator/prey relationships, life cycles, and energy flow are all easily viewed in a relatively small …
Artist Mary Bourke’s new solo show benefits Maine Audubon
Looking closely at the vivid acrylics of the artist Mary Bourke brings about a sense of peace, transporting you to a gentler simpler time of picking blueberries, swimming at a lake, standing around a camp fire. Her new show at the Greenhut Galleries, “Somewhere Between Water and Woods,” on …
Family Fun Connections: Neighborhood Trees
As we've gotten better acquainted with the trees we pass on our daily walks around the neighborhood, I love that they're starting to stand out as individuals. In the past I've talked about spotting differences as a precursor to identifying species, but those same skills are what have led to noticing …
Elementary Connections: Life Cycles in Spring
How do different plants or animals grow and develop? What stages of life can you see around you? Do young plants and animals always look exactly like their parents? Step outside or peek out your window and you're bound to see new life this time of year. Birds are laying eggs or caring for their …
Bee Engaged on World Bee Day
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery -Emily Dickinson While waxing poetic certainly romanticizes our beloved bee, here's the hard truth: bee populations are in peril. Extinctions are occurring at unprecedented …