by Kim Turner | Aug 26, 2021 | Nature News, Summer
Jamestown, N.Y. – Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC) has added new and unusual creatures to its menagerie of education animals that you can visit. A pair of Eastern Hellbenders, a species of giant aquatic salamander, have joined the fish, turtles, frogs, snakes,...
by Kim Turner | Aug 26, 2021 | Press Release, Summer
Jamestown, N.Y. – Audubon Community Nature Center’s (ACNC) Interactive Nature Sidewalk got spruced up this summer with help from a Projects Pool grant from the United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County (UAA). To engage children along the path that leads from the...
by Kim Turner | Aug 23, 2021 | Nature News, Summer
Monarchs often fly like they have no idea what they are doing. They flutter up and down and move along in a quirky, unpredictable zig zag pattern, much like an untended toddler in the store. Their erratic flying makes them look drunk, but keeps them mostly safe from...
by Kim Turner | Aug 16, 2021 | Nature News, Spring
If you have spent time in the woods this August, then you have probably been faced with a swarm of mosquitoes buzzing around your head just as we have here at Audubon. Last week, my group of 11 and 12 year olds made our way around the Big Pond Trail. We walked down...
by Kim Turner | Aug 9, 2021 | Nature News, Summer
I recently spent some time with a delightful three-year-old. Among other things, she was entranced by the creepy crawlies – they were all bugs to her. Of course, I immediately found her a container for her insects and we became bug-hunting buddies. Grasshoppers and...
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