by auduboncnc | May 26, 2020 | Press Release, Spring
Jamestown, N.Y. – For more than 60 years, the weekend after Memorial Day has been reserved by many for the Allegany Nature Pilgrimage, an outdoor learning experience that combines fun with a variety of nature-oriented activities. Instead of its usual location at...
by auduboncnc | May 19, 2020 | Nature News, Spring
The air cooled down noticeably as we descended the trail between giant rocks the size of houses. It smelled of damp moss, flowering oak, and that indefinable smell of spring. My children scrambled into a crack and started climbing, while my wife and I slowed down to...
by auduboncnc | May 12, 2020 | Nature News, Spring
For a while there, the natural world was about two weeks early. It was promising, and so I started some seeds a little earlier than I normally would, cued by what was really happening outdoors, since the plants don’t know about the calendar, nor do they care. Then,...
by auduboncnc | May 12, 2020 | Press Release, Spring
Jamestown, N.Y. – Every spring since 2003 Audubon Community Nature Center Education Staff have raised scholarship funds through their Birdathon on the first Saturday in May. Participants look for as many species as possible over a 24-hour period, and generous...
by auduboncnc | May 4, 2020 | Nature News, Spring
There is both skill and art involved in taking natural materials and fashioning them into a useful object. Humans have done this in the past, harvesting plants and turning them in shelters, clothes, furniture and tools. I can’t help but wonder how they figured it out,...
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