Aurora and Awe

Aurora and Awe

By Sarah Hatfield, Education Coordinator In hindsight, I don’t actually remember the last time that my jaw literally hung open in awe. I forgot what it feels like to be so incredulous that you start to almost hum with excitement. The eclipse recently came close to...
Love for the Isopod

Love for the Isopod

By Emma Roth, Nature Educator We have entered Discovery Walk and Schoolyard Walk season here at Audubon, where schools come to us for nature field trips or we visit them to do nature walks in their schoolyards. While nature is highly unpredictable, and there are few...
Dandelions

Dandelions

By Chelsea Jandreau, Nature Educator Spring is often associated with colorful bursts of flowers, but the appearance of many flowers tends to come in rounds and waves from the first warm days of March through the fall flowers of September. Their first appearance and...
Birding Everywhere

Birding Everywhere

By Katie Finch, Senior Nature Educator As I ran, I listened. I had already noted the cheery call of an American Robin and the persistent chips from a group of House Sparrows when I stepped out the door. A few steps up the road, I recognized the melancholy music from...
 The Joy of Mud

 The Joy of Mud

By Emma Roth, Nature Educator As part of an educator’s job at Audubon Community Nature Center, i act as a counselor for the camps Audubon offers, both week-long summer camps and single day camps on holidays when kids are off from school. It’s a fun job, seeing Audubon...
A Shared Moment Under the Eclipse

A Shared Moment Under the Eclipse

By Leigh Rovegno, Executive Director The whispers started weeks and months before. Would the eclipse bring thousands? Would we have enough parking? Would the sky even cooperate? A million unknowns hung over Audubon Community Nature Center like a pre-dawn mist. Then,...