by auduboncnc | Jan 28, 2022 | Nature News, Winter
By Sarah Hatfield The snow is deep and cold. Streams are running through frozen cathedrals as the ice thickens. Winter birds congregate at feeders. Deer get ever closer to the house to nip both shrubs and the bird seed. This time of year always feels like the depths...
by auduboncnc | Jan 21, 2022 | Event, Winter
By Jeff Tome Winter is a time to fill hours. Long, dark nights and short, cold days tend to force people to spend more time inside. How you spend that time says a lot about a person. Some folks binge watch shows on TV, learning how to cook things they will never make...
by auduboncnc | Jan 13, 2022 | Winter
By Chelsea Jandreau There are plenty of words used in our general vocabulary that also get used by the scientific community. Sometimes those words originally have a very scientific definition while others have been co-opted by science at some point in history to have...
by auduboncnc | Jan 4, 2022 | Nature News, Winter
By Katie Finch Watching the birds at the birdfeeders has become a Sunday morning routine at my house. With the feeders fully stocked and coffee freshly poured, I sit at the dining room table and watch. Always a fan of lists, I’ve started jotting down the species I see...
by auduboncnc | Dec 14, 2021 | Winter
By Jeff Tome Do you ever wonder how we know what we know about animals? Take a simple topic like migration. Many people can tell you that birds migrate south for the winter, but what does that really mean? Where is this place called “south”? The answer is far more...
by auduboncnc | Dec 10, 2021 | Nature News, Winter
By Katie Finch I look out across the wetlands at Audubon for a moment. My first thought is how dull the landscape looks. What was a riot of sounds and a tangle of green in summer now looks still and bland. Of course, it is glorious with a blanket of fresh snow. But on...
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