by auduboncnc | Nov 12, 2018 | Press Release
Jamestown, N.Y. – You are invited to walk off some Thanksgiving turkey on the trails at Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC) on Thanksgiving and the day after, even though the Nature Center building will be closed those days. Be sure to come back and do some holiday...
by auduboncnc | Nov 6, 2018 | Fall, Nature News
It was pointed out to me that I use the word “awesome” quite a bit. At first I was kind of put off, being called out on my lack of mature, diverse vocabulary. I started to think about what the word meant. What is awe? Awe is a feeling we get when we look at something...
by auduboncnc | Oct 29, 2018 | Fall, Nature News
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. This is a tale of two forests, one with too many deer and one without. Interestingly enough, both of these forests are at the Audubon Community Nature Center. Around ten years ago, Audubon volunteers installed an...
by auduboncnc | Oct 23, 2018 | Fall, Nature News
The mama hen with her seven peeps let’s out a low growl and they all freeze, some of them mid-step. Mom continues to growl as I look around thinking cat, dog, or hawk, but see nothing. Three minutes pass, no motion. Finally, I continue with my task of filling...
by auduboncnc | Oct 17, 2018 | Fall, Nature News
A common misconception about trees is that the bigger they are, the older they are. This is not always true. Using size to gauge tree age is very similar to comparing people’s age to their size. Humans start small, hit a growth spurt, and remain mostly the same in...
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