A Pup’s Nose view of the Neighborhood

A Pup’s Nose view of the Neighborhood

By Jeff Tome There are things in life that shake everything up. These events hit your life like an earthquake, shaking things apart and rebuilding life in unanticipated ways. For me, those events included marriage, having kids and, now, getting a puppy. If you are one...
Liberty, Audubon’s Bald Eagle has passed

Liberty, Audubon’s Bald Eagle has passed

Liberty, Audubon Community Nature Center’s non-releasable Bald Eagle, passed away on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 after a series of recent health setbacks. Liberty arrived at Audubon in 2002 from the state of Washington, where a local woman discovered her with an...
Smells hold Memories

Smells hold Memories

By Emma Roth A few days ago, I was walking down the street when suddenly I was suddenly transported to my grandparents’ house. I wasn’t there physically; my grandparents lived a few hundred miles away from where I was standing and sold that house over a decade ago. In...
Elusive Animals

Elusive Animals

By Chelsea Jandreau There are plenty of animals I have never seen in real life, including many that call Western New York home. In most cases, I am absolutely fine with this. Life goes on and if I ever happen to come across a new plant, fungus or animal, it is just an...
A Gentian Conversation and Conservation

A Gentian Conversation and Conservation

By Sarah Hatfield “Oh! That’s Closed Gentian! I haven’t seen that in years.” I was at a workshop recently, and there were four of us taking our time and walking at the back of the group, which was already fifty feet ahead of us. The session was focused on wildlife...