Do the Great Backyard Bird Count

Do the Great Backyard Bird Count

By Craig Thompson Let’s be honest, mid-February is an absolutely lousy time to ask people to count birds, but that is exactly what the National Audubon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology ask people to do. The weather is often intolerably cold, for people and for...
Nature in the City

Nature in the City

By Katie Finch, Senior Nature Educator I recently visited Charleston, South Carolina, a city full of history, tourist attractions, and beautiful buildings on the Atlantic Coast. We spent much of the day walking around the city. I’m not accustomed to the crowds,...
A Reason to Bird

A Reason to Bird

By Katie Finch At Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC), people think we are all about birds. It is understandable. It was the outrage over the killing of millions of birds to decorate ladies’ hats that led to the foundation of the Massachusetts Audubon Society in...
Audubon Lights Pop-up Thursday, April 6

Audubon Lights Pop-up Thursday, April 6

Jamestown, N.Y. – As promised, with the prediction of ideal weather, Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC) is adding an Audubon Lights Pop-up on Thursday, April 6, 8:30 – 10 p.m. At Audubon Lights, on a luminary-lit path you experience a breathtaking trail of lasers,...
Liberty’s 20th Anniversary

Liberty’s 20th Anniversary

By Jeff Tome The usual happy babble of preschool voices echoed across Audubon as a group of children and their parents came on a field trip. I happened to be outside doing something else as they walked up to see Audubon’s resident Bald Eagle, Liberty. For a moment,...